Thorsten Botz-Bornstein

Transcultural Architecture (eBook, ePUB)

The Limits and Opportunities of Critical Regionalism

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book shifts the focus from Critical Regionalism towards a broader concept of 'Transcultural Architecture' and defines Critical Regionalism as a subgroup of the latter.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. März 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317007982
• Artikelnr.: 44863584

Autorenporträt

Thorsten Botz-Bornstein was born in Germany and studied philosophy in Paris and Oxford. As a postdoctoral researcher based in Finland he undertook extenÂsive research on Russian formalism and semiotics in Russia and the Baltic countries. He has also been researching in Japan, in particular on the Kyoto School and on the philosophy of Nishida Kitarÿ. At present he is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Gulf University for Science and Technology in Kuwait. His publications are: Place and Dream: Japan and the Virtual (Rodopi, 2004); Films and Dreams: Tarkovsky, Sokurov, Bergman, Kubrik, Wong Kar-wai (Lexington Books 2007); La Chine contre l'Amérique. Culture sans civilisation contre civilisation sans culture? (Paris: L'Harmattan 2012) ; Vasily Sesemann: Experience, Formalism and the Question of Being (Rodopi 2006); Aesthetics and Politics of Space in Russia and Japan (Lexington Books 2009); The Cool-Kawaii: Afro-Japanese Aesthetics and New World Modernity (Lexington 2010); The Veil in Kuwait: Gender, Fashion, Identity (with Noreen Abdullah-Khan, Palgrave 2014); Editor of: The Philosophy of Viagra: Bioethical Responses to the Viagrification of the Modern World (Rodopi, 2011); Inception and Philosophy: Ideas to Die For (Chicago: Open Court, 2011). Re-ethnicizing the Minds? Tendencies of Cultural Revival in Contemporary Philosophy (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2006). The Crisis of the Human Sciences: False Objectivity and the Decline of Creativity (2010) Nature Culture, Memes (2008).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1 Reima Pietilä's Kuwait Buildings Revisited
Chapter 2 Empathy, Abstraction, Style, Non-Style
Chapter 3 "Magic Internationalism" or the Paradox of Globalization
Chapter 4 Wang Shu and the Possibilities of Critical Regionalism in China
Chapter 5 When the Monumental Becomes Decorative
Chapter 6 Play, Dream, and the Search for the "Real" Form of Dwelling
Chapter 7 Wittgenstein's Stonborough House and the Architecture of Tadao Ando
Chapter 8 Cardboard Houses with Wings
Chapter 9 H-Sang Seung
Chapter 10 The Secularization of the Architectural Heritage through Wahhabism in Saudi Arabia
Chapter 101 Conclusion