Architecture of regionalism in the age of globalization : peaks and valleys in the flat world /: peaks and valleys in the flat world. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Liane Lefaivre and Alexander Tzonis.
• Authors: Lefaivre, Liane; Tzonis, Alexander
• Contents: Preface to the New Edition: Peaks and Valleys in the Flat World: Why Regionalism? Introduction to the New Edition: Universe Unbound, the End of the Geography of Regions? 1. The Origins: Regional Architecture and the Dawn of Classical Architecture 2. Regional into Regionalist: Cathedrals, Palaces, and the case of the Casa Dei Crescenzi as a Manifesto 3. Searching for Identity in a Flat Archipelago of Classical Garden-Villas 4. The Picturesque Revolt: Liberty, the Merits of Chaos, and the ‘Genius of the Place in All’ 5. From the Physiocrats and Rousseau to Goethe's Regionalist Architecture 6. Regionalism as a Force for Liberation and National Identity 7. Post-Napoleonic Nationalist Regionalism, the Social Question, and The Emergence of Environmental Architecture 8. Regionalism Triumphant, and Corrupted: Out-of-Place Places, Emporia, World-Fairs, New States, Colonial Structures, and the Specter of Totalitarian Regimes 9. Global Regionalism Set Against International Style: Lewis Mumford and his Contemporaries 10. De-Regionalization in Post-World War II Reconstruction, Urban Renewal, and Fake Regionalism 11. The Critical Regionalist Response to Multinational De-Regionalization 12. Highlights of Critical Regionalism in this Dark Era of Environmental Inequality and End-of-Diversity Wasteland Coda: Re-Regionalization and Engagement in a Global World
• Edition: Second edition
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 724.7; Regionalism in architecture; Architecture and globalization
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000221060; 9781000221022; 9781000221046; 9780367281182
• Related ISBNs: 9780367281151; 9780367281168
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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