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About the Author |
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Acknowledgments |
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Note on the use of East-Asian names |
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Introduction: Critical Critical Regionalism or From Regionalism to Transculturalism |
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2 | (1) |
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2 Defense of Critical Regionalism |
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3 | (1) |
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3 Different Critical Regionalisms |
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1 Reima Pietila's Kuwait Buildings Revisited: About the Limits of Transcultural Architecture |
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1 "City of Kuwait: A Future Concept" |
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10 | (9) |
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2 The Sief Palace Buildings |
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3.Transcultural Architecture |
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37 | (10) |
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4 The Ministry Transformed |
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47 | (21) |
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68 | (13) |
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2 Empathy, Abstraction, Style, Non-Style: Reima Pietila's Philosophy |
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81 | (18) |
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81 | (1) |
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81 | (2) |
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2 Empathy and Abstraction |
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83 | (1) |
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84 | (1) |
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85 | (1) |
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5 "Making Things Strange" |
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86 | (3) |
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6 Empathy and Alienation in the Architecture of Alvar Aalto and Reima Pietila |
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89 | (2) |
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91 | (1) |
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92 | (2) |
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94 | (5) |
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3 "Magic Internationalism" or the Paradox of Globalization: Louis Kahn's National Assembly Complex in Dhaka, Bangladesh |
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99 | (22) |
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99 | (2) |
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1 Metaphors, Symbols, Irony: Kahn and Pietila |
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101 | (1) |
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2 The Hermeneutics of Style |
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102 | (5) |
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4 Wang Shu and the Possibilities of Critical Regionalism in China |
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107 | (1) |
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107 | (1) |
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108 | (4) |
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2 The Possibilities of Critical Regionalism in China |
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112 | (5) |
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117 | (4) |
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5 When the Monumental Becomes Decorative: Thoughts on Contemporary Chinese Architecture |
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121 | (8) |
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121 | (1) |
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1 Architecture in Hangzhou |
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121 | (2) |
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2 The Semantics of Monuments |
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123 | (2) |
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3 Stammering Monumentality |
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125 | (1) |
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4 Nietzsche: The Decorative vs. the Monumental |
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126 | (1) |
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5 Monuments and Identity in China |
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127 | (2) |
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6 Play, Dream, and the Search for the "Real" Form of Dwelling: From Aalto to Ando |
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129 | (8) |
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129 | (1) |
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1 Anti-rationalism of Play in Aalto and Ando |
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130 | (2) |
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2 Ando's "Dreamlike Anti-Rationalism" |
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132 | (2) |
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134 | (3) |
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7 Wittgenstein's Stonborough House and the Architecture of Tadao Ando |
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137 | (6) |
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137 | (2) |
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139 | (1) |
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139 | (1) |
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140 | (1) |
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4 Body Architecture, Architecture as Gesture |
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140 | (1) |
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141 | (2) |
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8 Cardboard Houses with Wings: The Architecture of Alabama's Rural Studio |
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143 | (8) |
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143 | (1) |
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1 Kitsch Culture and Junk Culture |
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144 | (2) |
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146 | (2) |
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3 Colonial Space and Third World Architecture |
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148 | (3) |
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9 H-Sang Seung: Design is not Design |
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151 | (12) |
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151 | (2) |
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153 | (1) |
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2 Seung and the "Right Way of Living" |
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154 | (3) |
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157 | (2) |
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4 Landscript and the Culture of Writing |
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159 | (3) |
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162 | (1) |
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10 The Secularization of the Architectural Heritage through Wahhabism in Saudi Arabia |
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163 | (16) |
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163 | (1) |
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1 Some General Thoughts on Conservation |
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164 | (1) |
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2 The Case of Saudi Arabia |
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165 | (2) |
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3 The Wahhabi Interpretation of Islam |
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167 | (1) |
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4 The Past and the Sacred |
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168 | (2) |
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170 | (3) |
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6 Religion, Culture and Deculturation |
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173 | (1) |
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174 | (2) |
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176 | (3) |
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179 | (6) |
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Land, Place, and "Form of Life" |
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181 | (4) |
Bibliography |
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Index |
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