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Description of  Region (Critiques)

1032422971 rar This book explores how the concept of region has evolved over time and shaped architectural culture and practice. It questions what the words region and regional mean for architecture, cities and landscapes past and present, and speculates on the forms they might take in the future. Region is explored in many thematic guises: as a real geographical site of evolving socio-economic activity as a mythical locus of enduring value as a gatekeeper of indigenous crafts and vernacular techniques as a site of architectural and artistic imagination as a repository of contested, conflicted and mobile identities. The contributing chapters take these themes from the theoretical and literary page through to architectural and urban practice, and from the scale of the domestic hearth through to the ocean archipelago and international law, enriching the long-standing trope of viewing architectural regionalism purely as a matter of style. Curated into four key thematic areas Read more