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Architecture and identity : responses to cultural and technological change / Chris Abel.
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Title:Architecture and identity : responses to cultural and technological change / Chris Abel.
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Author/Creator:Abel, Chris, author.
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Published/Created:London ; New York : Routledge, 2017.
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Location:MAA LIBRARY (IKB) stacksWhere is this?
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Call Number: NA2500 .A392 2017
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Number of Items:1
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Status:Available
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Location:MAA LIBRARY (IKB) stacksWhere is this?
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Library of Congress Subjects:Architecture and philosophy.
Architecture--Environmental aspects.
Regionalism in architecture.
Identity (Psychology)
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Edition:Third edition.
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Description:xvi, 398 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages [371]-386) and index.
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ISBN:9781138206557 (hb : alk. paper)
1138206555 (hb : alk. paper)
9781138206564 (pb : alk. paper)
1138206563 (pb : alk. paper)
9781315464657 (ebook)
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Contents:Machine generated contents note: 1. Evolutionary planning
Biological models
Self-organizing systems
Urban patterns
Megastructure versus fragmentation
2. Ditching the dinosaur sanctuary
Performance criteria
Myths and misconceptions
Integrated design
Variable production
Numerically controlled machines
cybernetic factory
Changing human roles
Universal machines for specialized markets
3. Empathy in science and design
Theories of knowledge
Particularism
Sense of place
New paradigm human science
Competing theories
Environmental dialogues
Common focus
4. Return to craft manufacture
Bridging the gap
Design development
Smart tools
CAD + CAM = craftsmanship
Responsive architecture
Battle for the real Modern Movement
5. Visible and invisible complexities
Adaptive machines
Responsive systems
Age of complexity
Customized design and manufacture
Cybercity
Pseudo-complexities
Sham images
Inclusive approach
Local space and global mind
6. virtual studio
Lost knowledge
New model of design education
Biotech Architecture Workshop
Another dimension
Networking the studio
7. Genetic designs: a memetic critique
Genetic algorithms
memetic perspective
Contentious issues
Definition
Transmission
Embodiment
Selection
Autonomy
Embedded algorithms
Conclusions
8. Technically embodied selves
Technics and the human
Knowing bodies
enigma of the self
Active externalism
Fields of being
Modes of transmission
Memes and types
Digital distractions
Second lives
Multiple selves
9. Cultures as complex wholes: a developmental perspective
Genetic epistemology
Cultural evolution
Piaget's equilibrium model
Unselfconscious and self-conscious cultures
Alexander's error
Reflective cultures
10. Architectural language games
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
Tacit knowing
Indwelling
Bodies of knowledge
Architectural paradigms
Role-playing
Educational implications
Conclusions
12. Metaphor in architectural creativity
Definitions of metaphor
Metaphor in architectural criticism
Dynamic and creative role of metaphor
New architectural concepts
Addendum
13. essential tension
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
Meaning of a paradigm
Disciplinary matrix
Dynamic model
Continuity and discontinuity
Modernist ambiguities
Innovation as integration
15. Architecture as identity: the essence of architecture
Theoretical approaches
problem of essence
Universalists versus relativists
diversity of ordinary language
Meaning is use
Ways of being
16. Living in a hybrid world: built sources of Malaysian identity
Relations of degree
Architectural journeys
Urban infusions
World architectures
Adaptive qualities
Cultural identity
Modern architecture and neo-colonialism
Emergent cultures
17. Regional transformations
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
Hybridization
Structure of Asian cities
Pacific shift
Global paradox
Pacific Age vision
19. Towards a global eco-culture
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
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
development city model
21. fragile habitation: coming to terms with the Australian landscape
Urbanized population
Archetypal Australian dwelling
Suburban patterns
New arrivals
Plan typologies
Illusion of sustainability
22. Reimagining the Vertical Garden City
Garden City legacy
End of the great Australian dream
High-rise innovations
Vertical Architecture Studio
Vertical farming
Multidimensional spatial structures
Expansion of the public realm.