Dieser Band untersucht den einzigartigen Charakter tropischer Architektur. Sehr detailliert geht er auf die Vielseitigkeit von Designern ein, die - trotz derstrengen physischen und sozioökonomischen Verhältnisse in dieser höchst unterschiedlichen Region - geniale Projekte geschaffen haben. Behandelt werden u.a. folgende Themen: Umweltverträglichkeit, biologische und kulturelle Vielfalt, Technologie und Steuerung des Mikroklimas, Postkolonialismus, Traditon versus Innovation und Globalisation versus kritischen Regionalismus.
Dieser Band untersucht den einzigartigen Charakter tropischer Architektur. Sehr detailliert geht er auf die Vielseitigkeit von Designern ein, die - trotz derstrengen physischen und sozioökonomischen Verhältnisse in dieser höchst unterschiedlichen Region - geniale Projekte geschaffen haben. Behandelt werden u.a. folgende Themen: Umweltverträglichkeit, biologische und kulturelle Vielfalt, Technologie und Steuerung des Mikroklimas, Postkolonialismus, Traditon versus Innovation und Globalisation versus kritischen Regionalismus.
ALEXANDER TZONIS is Professor of Architectural Theory at the TUDelft and director of Design Knowledge Systems Research Center. Among his books are Towards a Non-Oppressive Environment (I-Press/MIT Press, 1972) and Hermes and the Golden Thinking Machine (Bradford/MIT Press, 1990). He has also co-authored several books with Liane Lefaivre, including Classical Architecture (MIT Press, 1986) and the AIA prize-winning Architecture in Europe since 1968 (Thames Hudson, 1992). LIANE LEFAIVRE is a researcher at the DKS Center at the TUDelft. She has authored prize-winning scholarly books on the Renaissance and Enlightenment, among them the AIA award-winning Leon Battista Alberti's Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (MIT Press, 1997). She is a contributing editor of Architecture magazine in New York and has written widely on contemporary architecture, in particular on dirty realism. BRUNO STAGNO, a practising architect in San Jose, Costa Rica, studies in Santiage, Chile and Paris and is one of the most eminent architects of South America today. He is Director of the Institute for Tropical Architecture, San Jose. His work has been published in Bruno Stagno: An Architect in the Tropics (Asia Design Forum Publications, 1999). It was Stagno's initiative to invite leading architects from the tropical region to enter a discussion that served as a point of departure of the present book. In 1997 he was given the Prince Claus Fund for Culture and Development Award.
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From the contents: List of Illustrations Table of Contents 1. Acknowledgements (Bruno Stagno, founder/director of the Instituto de Arquitectura Tropical, San Jose, Costa Rica) 2. Tropical Critical Regionalism (Lefaivre and Tzonis) 3. The Suppression and Rethinking of Regionalism, and Tropicalism, after 1945 (Lefaivre & Tzonis) 4. Globalization: Some Cultural Dilemmas (Gerardo Mosquera, one of the leading cultural critics of Cuba today, and curator of the Museum of Modern Art, New York) 5. Tropicality (Bruno Stagno) 6. Modernizing Appropriations/Appropriating Modernity (Tan Hock Beng, designer and author of books on tropical architecture) 7. Architecture and National Identity (Severiano Porto) 8. Architecture and City in the Caribbean (Roberto Segre, Professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro) 9. The Architecture of the Panama Canal: Colonialism, Syncretism and Coming to Terms with the Tropics (Eduardo Tejeira Davis, architect and architectural histo rian practising in Panama City) 10. Designing and Building in the Tropics (Bruno Stagno) 11. Architectural Responses to Tropical India (Rahul Mehrotra, founder/director of Urban Design Research Institute, Mumbai and author of two books on Bombay) 12. The Green Agenda (Ken Yeang, architect and author) 13. Three Tropical Paradigms (Philip Bay, architect and teacher at the University of Singapore) 14. The Tropical City Concept (Tai Kheng Soon)
From the contents: List of Illustrations Table of Contents 1. Acknowledgements (Bruno Stagno, founder/director of the Instituto de Arquitectura Tropical, San Jose, Costa Rica) 2. Tropical Critical Regionalism (Lefaivre and Tzonis) 3. The Suppression and Rethinking of Regionalism, and Tropicalism, after 1945 (Lefaivre & Tzonis) 4. Globalization: Some Cultural Dilemmas (Gerardo Mosquera, one of the leading cultural critics of Cuba today, and curator of the Museum of Modern Art, New York) 5. Tropicality (Bruno Stagno) 6. Modernizing Appropriations/Appropriating Modernity (Tan Hock Beng, designer and author of books on tropical architecture) 7. Architecture and National Identity (Severiano Porto) 8. Architecture and City in the Caribbean (Roberto Segre, Professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro) 9. The Architecture of the Panama Canal: Colonialism, Syncretism and Coming to Terms with the Tropics (Eduardo Tejeira Davis, architect and architectural histo rian practising in Panama City) 10. Designing and Building in the Tropics (Bruno Stagno) 11. Architectural Responses to Tropical India (Rahul Mehrotra, founder/director of Urban Design Research Institute, Mumbai and author of two books on Bombay) 12. The Green Agenda (Ken Yeang, architect and author) 13. Three Tropical Paradigms (Philip Bay, architect and teacher at the University of Singapore) 14. The Tropical City Concept (Tai Kheng Soon)
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