内容説明
Tropical Architecture presents a selection of essays by architectural historians and theoreticians on key issues in tropical architecture today. Alongside these are examples of work (both architectural and urbanist) from leading tropical architecture practitioners - including emerging practitioners and established architectural stars. Contributors include Ken Yeang, Michael Pearce, Charles Correa and many more.
目次
Contributors. Foreword. Preface. Tropical Critical Regionalism: Introductory Comments (L. Lefaivre & A. Tzonis). The Suppression and Rethinking of Regionalism and Tropicalism after 1945 (L. Lefaivre & A. Tzonis). Globalization: Some Cultural Dilemmas (G. Mosquera). Tropicality (B. Stagno). Modernizing Appropriations/Appropriating Modernity (T. Beng). Architecture and National Identity (S. Porto). Architecture and City in the Caribbean: The Reinvention of Paradise (R. Segre). The Architecture of the Panama Canal: Colonialism, Syncretism and Coming to Terms with the Tropics (E. Tejeira-Davis). Designing and Building in the Tropics (B. Stagno). Architectural Responses in Tropical India (R. Mehrotra). The Green Agenda (K. Yeang). Three Tropical Design Paradigms (B. Philip). Rethinking the City in the Tropics: The Tropical City Concept (T. Soon). Index.
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