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Tropical architecture : critical regionalism in the age of globalization / edited by Alexander Tzonis, Liane Lefaivre and Bruno Stagno.

Contributor(s): Publication details: Chichester : Wiley-Academy ; The Netherlands : C. Fonds, c2001.Description: 311 p. : ill. (some col.), plans ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0471496081
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 721.0913 TRO
Contents:
Contributors. - Foreword. - Preface / Bruno Stagno. - Ch. 1 Tropical Critical Regionalism: Introductory Comments / Liane Lefaivre, Alexander Tzonis. - Ch. 2 The Suppression and Rethinking of Regionalism and Tropicalism after 1945 / Liane Lefaivre, Alexander Tzonis. - Ch. 3 Globalization: Some Cultural Dilemmas / Gerardo Mosquera. - Ch. 4 Tropicality / Bruno Stagno. - Ch. 5 Modernizing Appropriations/Appropriating Modernity / Tan Hock Beng. - Ch. 6 Architecture and National Identity / Severiano Porto. - Ch. 7 Architecture and City in the Caribbean: The Reinvention of Paradise / Roberto Segre. - Ch. 8 The Architecture of the Panama Canal: Colonialism, Syncretism and Coming to Terms with the Tropics / Eduardo Tejeira-Davis. - Ch. 9 Designing and Building in the Tropics / Bruno Stagno. - Ch. 10 Architectural Responses in Tropical India / Rahul Mehrotra. - Ch. 11 The Green Agenda / Ken Yeang. - Ch. 12 Three Tropical Design Paradigms / Bay Joo Hwa Philip. - Ch. 13 Rethinking the City in the Tropics: the Tropical City Concept / Tay Kheng Soon. - Index.
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Floor 4, Shelf 31 , Side 1, TierNo 1, BayNo 1

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contributors. - Foreword. - Preface / Bruno Stagno. - Ch. 1 Tropical Critical Regionalism: Introductory Comments / Liane Lefaivre, Alexander Tzonis. - Ch. 2 The Suppression and Rethinking of Regionalism and Tropicalism after 1945 / Liane Lefaivre, Alexander Tzonis. - Ch. 3 Globalization: Some Cultural Dilemmas / Gerardo Mosquera. - Ch. 4 Tropicality / Bruno Stagno. - Ch. 5 Modernizing Appropriations/Appropriating Modernity / Tan Hock Beng. - Ch. 6 Architecture and National Identity / Severiano Porto. - Ch. 7 Architecture and City in the Caribbean: The Reinvention of Paradise / Roberto Segre. - Ch. 8 The Architecture of the Panama Canal: Colonialism, Syncretism and Coming to Terms with the Tropics / Eduardo Tejeira-Davis. - Ch. 9 Designing and Building in the Tropics / Bruno Stagno. - Ch. 10 Architectural Responses in Tropical India / Rahul Mehrotra. - Ch. 11 The Green Agenda / Ken Yeang. - Ch. 12 Three Tropical Design Paradigms / Bay Joo Hwa Philip. - Ch. 13 Rethinking the City in the Tropics: the Tropical City Concept / Tay Kheng Soon. - Index.