Architectural Regionalism: Collected Writings on Place, Identity, Modernity and Tradition 2007th Edition

Architectural Regionalism: Collected Writings on Place, Identity, Modernity and Tradition 2007th Edition book cover

Architectural Regionalism: Collected Writings on Place, Identity, Modernity and Tradition 2007th Edition

Author(s): Vincent B. Canizaro

  • Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
  • Publication Date: May 4, 2007
  • Edition: 2007th
  • Language: English
  • Print length: 463 pages
  • ISBN-10: 1568986165
  • ISBN-13: 9781568986166

Book Description

In this rapidly globalizing world, any investigation of architecture inevitably leads to considerations of regionalism. But despite its omnipresence in contemporary practice and theory, architectural regionalism remains a fluid concept, its historical development and current influence largely undocumented. This comprehensive reader brings together over forty key essays illustrating the full range of ideas embodied by the term. Authored by important critics, historians, and architects such as Kenneth Frampton, Lewis Mumford, Sigfried Giedion, and Alan Colquhoun, Architectural Regionalism represents the history of regionalist thinking in architecture from the early twentieth century to today.

Editorial Reviews

Review

Essays in defense of regionalism go down more smoothly in an age of globalism and numbing sameness. Customization as self-expression is taking hold from the auto industry to sports shoes, so why not in architecture? From his vantage point at the University of Texas at San Antonio, Canizaro argues that regionalism, far from fostering provincialism, can “open up the possibility of shared purpose, in which the concerns of here are understood as linked to there: ecologically, economically, and socially.” — Architect, April 2007

This comprehensive reader brings together over 40 key essays illustrating the full range of ideas embodied by the term. Authored by important critics, historians, and architects… — RIBA, December 2006

About the Author

Vincent B. Canizaro is an assistant professor of architecture at the University of Texas, San Antonio. As a practicing architect, Canizaro focuses on site-specific, sustainable, and community-based design and landscape.

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