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Architecture and Identity: Responses to Cultural and Technological Change 3rd edition [Minkštas viršelis]

(University of Ulster, UK)
  • Formatas: Paperback / softback, 414 pages, aukštis x plotis: 246x189 mm, weight: 864 g, 1 Tables, black and white; 69 Line drawings, black and white; 131 Halftones, black and white
  • Išleidimo metai: 16-Feb-2017
  • Leidėjas: Routledge
  • ISBN-10: 1138206563
  • ISBN-13: 9781138206564
Kitos knygos pagal šią temą:
  • Formatas: Paperback / softback, 414 pages, aukštis x plotis: 246x189 mm, weight: 864 g, 1 Tables, black and white; 69 Line drawings, black and white; 131 Halftones, black and white
  • Išleidimo metai: 16-Feb-2017
  • Leidėjas: Routledge
  • ISBN-10: 1138206563
  • ISBN-13: 9781138206564
Kitos knygos pagal šią temą:

Expanding his collected essays on architectural theory and criticism, Chris Abel pursues his explorations across disciplinary and regional boundaries in search of a deeper understanding of architecture in the evolution of human culture and identity formation. From his earliest writings predicting the computer based revolution in customized architectural production, through his novel studies on ‘tacit knowing’ in design or hybridization in regional and colonial architecture, to his radical theory of the ‘extended self’, Abel has been a consistently fresh and provocative thinker, contesting both conventions and intellectual fashions.

This revised third edition includes a new introduction and six additional chapters by the author covering a broad range of related topics, up to recent concerns with genetic design methods and virtual selves. Together with the former essays, the book presents a unique global perspective on the changing cultural issues and technologies shaping human identities and the built environment in diverse parts of the world, both East and West.

Recenzijos

"Chris Abel is a nomad in the intellectual as well as in the geographical sense. The result is always unconventional and challenging, and sometimes impressively prescient." - Colin Davies, The Architectural Review, on the first edition

"Architecture and Identity is a classic. The first edition established it as the textbook for the connection between these two important arenas of popular interest. This third edition includes a masterful addition to the original text, one that not only takes the larger cultural discourses seriously, but building on earlier essays also reflects on and contextualizes the present moment in the history of the built environment." - Nezar AlSayyad, University of California, Berkeley

"The impressive breadth of these collected essays from Chris Abel draws out the intellectual ground necessary to bring our ever-fresh obsession with technology in architecture, into the historical and cultural frame it desperately needs. For anyone interested in actually understanding the radical responses of architecture to the changing times, Abel offers a powerfully argued perspective built over many years of reflection that is more relevant than ever." - Anthony Burke, University of Technology Sydney

Preface x
Acknowledgements xiii
Introduction 1(16)
Part I: Science and technology 17(122)
1 Evolutionary planning
19(11)
Biological models
Self-organizing systems
Urban patterns
Megastructure versus fragmentation
2 Ditching the dinosaur sanctuary
30(15)
Performance criteria
Myths and misconceptions
Integrated design
Variable production
Numerically controlled machines
The cybernetic factory
Changing human roles
Universal machines for specialized markets
3 Empathy in science and design
45(8)
Theories of knowledge
Particularism
Sense of place
New paradigm human science
Competing theories
Environmental dialogues
Common focus
4 Return to craft manufacture
53(10)
Bridging the gap
Design development
Smart tools
CAD + CAM = craftsmanship
Responsive architecture
Battle for the real Modern Movement
5 Visible and invisible complexities
63(23)
Adaptive machines
Responsive systems
Age of complexity
Customized design and manufacture
Cybercity
Pseudo-complexities
Sham images
Inclusive approach
Local space and global mind
6 The virtual studio
86(12)
Lost knowledge
New model of design education
The Biotech Architecture Workshop
Another dimension
Networking the studio
7 Genetic designs: a memetic critique
98(12)
Genetic algorithms
The memetic perspective
Contentious issues
Definition
Transmission
Embodiment
Selection
Autonomy
Embedded algorithms
Conclusions
8 Technically embodied selves
110(29)
Technics and the human
Knowing bodies
The enigma of the self
Active externalism
Fields of being
Modes of transmission
Memes and types
Digital distractions
Second lives
Multiple selves
Part II: Critical theory 139(86)
9 Cultures as complex wholes: a developmental perspective
141(9)
Genetic epistemology
Cultural evolution
Piaget's equilibrium model
Unselfconscious and self-conscious cultures
Alexander's error
Reflective cultures
10 Architectural language games
150(21)
Analogical thinking
Language as a model
Linguistic theory
Language games
Critical relativism
Methods of criticism
Levels of interpretation
Partisan criticism
Different systems of belief
Architecture and social identity
11 Tacit knowing in learning to design
171(10)
Tacit knowing
Indwelling
Bodies of knowledge
Architectural paradigms
Role-playing
Educational implications
Conclusions
12 Metaphor in architectural creativity
181(15)
Definitions of metaphor
Metaphor in architectural criticism
Dynamic and creative role of metaphor
New architectural concepts
Addendum
13 The essential tension
196(18)
Flirtation with form
Ways of thinking
Complementary opposites
West meets East
Timeless modernity
Green machines
Another kind of ambiguity
14 Tradition, innovation and linked solutions
214(11)
Meaning of a paradigm
Disciplinary matrix
Dynamic model
Continuity and discontinuity
Modernist ambiguities
Innovation as integration
Part III: Regionalism and globalization 225(142)
15 Architecture as identity: the essence of architecture
227(12)
Theoretical approaches
The problem of essence
Universalists versus relativists
The diversity of ordinary language
Meaning is use
Ways of being
16 Living in a hybrid world: built sources of Malaysian identity
239(15)
Relations of degree
Architectural journeys
Urban infusions
World architectures
Adaptive qualities
Cultural identity
Modern architecture and neo-colonialism
Emergent cultures
17 Regional transformations
254(21)
Cross-cultural effects
Mixed lessons from colonial architecture
Questions of definition
Bauhaus brainwash
Recent initiatives
Renaissance of Islamic architecture
Changing urban context
Spectrum of approaches
Challenge to Western hegemony
18 Localization versus globalization
275(9)
Hybridization
Structure of Asian cities
Pacific shift
Global paradox
Pacific Age vision
19 Towards a global eco-culture
284(18)
Post-colonial patterns of development
Alternative development paradigms
Choosing technology
Self-build housing
Hybrid technologies
Modern regionalism
Implementation
Cultural typologies
New rationality
20 Asian urban futures: the view from the East
302(30)
Charles Correa and the New Bombay Plan
Ken Yeang and the bioclimatic city
Tay Kheng Soon and the tropical megacity
Liu Thai Ker and the constellation city
Force for change
The development city model
21 A fragile habitation: coming to terms with the Australian landscape
332(16)
Urbanized population
Archetypal Australian dwelling
Suburban patterns
New arrivals
Plan typologies
Illusion of sustainability
22 Reimagining the Vertical Garden City
348(19)
The Garden City legacy
End of the great Australian dream
High-rise innovations
The Vertical Architecture Studio
Vertical farming
Multidimensional spatial structures
Expansion of the public realm
Postscript: notes on afield theory of identity 367(4)
Bibliography 371(16)
Index 387
Chris Abel is an award-winning author of numerous interdisciplinary publications on the built environment and identity formation and has taught at universities around the world, most recently at the University of Sydney and the University of Ulster, Belfast. He now lives in France, close to Paris. For more, see: www.chrisabel.com