Umfang:
1 online resource (viii, 349 pages)
ISBN:
9781315550220
,
9781317007975
,
9781317007982
Inhalt:
1. Reima Pietila's Kuwait buildings revisited : about the limits of transcultural architecture -- 2. Empathy, abstraction, style, non-style : Reima Pietila's philosophy -- 3. "Magic internationalism" or the paradox of globalization : Louis Kahn's national assembly complex in Dhaka, Bangladesh -- 4. Wang Shu and the possibilities of critical regionalism in China -- 5. When the monumental becomes decorative : thoughts on contemporary Chinese architecture -- 6. Play, dream, and the search for the "real" form of dwelling : from Aalto to Ando -- 7. Wittgenstein's Stonborough house and the architecture of Tadao Ando -- 8. Cardboard houses with wings : the architecture of Alabama's Rural Studio -- 9. H-Sang Seung : design is not design -- 10. The secularization of the architectural heritage through Wahhabism in Saudi Arabia.
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-197) and index
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781472463418
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781138573468
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781472463418
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.4324/9781315550220
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