Gated Luxury Condominiums in India: A Socio-Spatial Arena for New Cosmopolitans critically examines gated luxury condominiums in contemporary India, exploring their role in shaping elite power and identity within the framework of neoliberalism....Daugiau...
The Future of Modular Architecture presents an unprecedented proposal for mass-customized mid- and high-rise modular housing that can be manufactured and distributed on a global scale....Daugiau...
This text is unique in bringing together a number of scholarly perspectives in the arts and humanities to examine how spatial and architectural design decisions convey meaning, shape or abet specific social practices, and stage memories of frontier...Daugiau...
This book examines whether the shopping centre should be qualified as a global architectural type that moves across national and cultural borders in the slipstream of globalization, or should instead be understood as an expression of negotiations be...Daugiau...
This book remains the definitive introductory text on the theory and history of regionalist architecture in the context of globalization. It addresses issues of identity, diversity, community, inequality, geopolitics, and sustainability....Daugiau...
Exploring the transformations globalization has unleashed on architecture, this book is a call to consider the broad range of issues involved and the forces influencing architectures role in our modern globalizing world....Daugiau...
Including a range of case studies and with contributions from eminent individuals, this book presents fresh insights and diverse perspectives on the evolving question of identity and globalisation....Daugiau...
This set of essays challenge interpretations of the development of modernist architecture in Third World countries during the Cold War. The topics look at modernisms part in the transnational development of building technologies and the construction...Daugiau...
How are building types such as skyscrapers, mosques or living history museums imported, adapted and contested in different societies? Our urban landscapes are reshaped by the global circulation of models drawn from elsewhere. This original collectio...Daugiau...
This book provides critical and interdisciplinary reflection upon issues of contemporary cultural and social significance to architectural critics, practitioners, educators and students....Daugiau...
Explores the significance of globalization processes on urban change, architectural practice and the built environment. This book covers the star system of international architects who combine celebrity and hypermobility, the top firms, and whose...Daugiau...
When designing, architects are responding to and creating a relationship between identity, culture and architectural style. This book discusses whether the extent of the use of glass facades has increased, or indeed enhanced, the creation of meaning...Daugiau...
Draws on social, cultural and postcolonial writings and architectural evidence from various cities around the world to examine existing theories of globalization and to develop new perspectives....Daugiau...
