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    Architecture and identity : responses to cultural and technological change / Chris Abel.

    • Title:Architecture and identity : responses to cultural and technological change / Chris Abel.
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    • Author/Creator:Abel, Chris, author.
    • Published/Created:London ; New York : Routledge, 2017.
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Architecture and philosophy.
      Architecture--Environmental aspects.
      Regionalism in architecture.
      Identity (Psychology)
    • Edition:Third edition.
    • Description:xvi, 398 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages [371]-386) and index.
    • ISBN:9781138206557 (hb : alk. paper)
      1138206555 (hb : alk. paper)
      9781138206564 (pb : alk. paper)
      1138206563 (pb : alk. paper)
      9781315464657 (ebook)
    • 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.
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