Description
Book SynopsisThis book explores how the concept of region' has evolved over time and shaped architectural culture and practice. It questions what the words region' and regional' mean for architecture, cities and landscapes past and present, and speculates on the forms they might take in the future. Region is explored in many thematic guises: as a real geographical site of evolving socio-economic activity; as a mythical locus of enduring value; as a gatekeeper of indigenous crafts and vernacular techniques; as a site of architectural and artistic imagination; as a repository of contested, conflicted and mobile identities. The contributing chapters take these themes from the theoretical and literary page through to architectural and urban practice, and from the scale of the domestic hearth through to the ocean archipelago and international law, enriching the long-standing trope of viewing architectural regionalism purely as a matter of style. Curated into four key thematic areas Theorised Regi
Table of Contents
Part 1: THEORISED REGIONS 1. A ‘true organ of Humanity’: on the Anti-feminist Architectural Regionalism of Comtean Positivism in Victorian Britain 2. The Question Concerning Types: A Review 3. Four decades on three fronts: the unfinished projects of Critical Regionalism 4. On the Unique Intertwining of Region, Nature, and Architecture in Norway Part 2: CONTESTED REGIONS 5. On ‘Region’: Alterity and Regional Encounters in a Postcolonial Archipelago 6. The Azorean archipelago: the invention of a political region 7. Dismantling the Territorial Exclusions 8. Holding the Street: An Assemblage of Nicosia’s Borders 9. The implications of power on the status of women in society and its reciprocal relationship with the home space in Azerbaijan, Iran Part 3: HERITAGE REGIONS 10. How Wealth Kills Craft 11. Material Culture and Decolonisation: Post-Partition Lahore 12. Southwestern Fantasy: Pueblo Revival and regional authenticity in New Mexico 13. The Mediterranean: Between Vernacular and Contemporary. Tradition, Modernity and Tourism in the Architecture of Germán Rodríguez Arias Part 4: FUTURE REGIONS 14. The Case of Capri: Landscape, Regional Culture and Modern Architecture 15. Oscillating between cosmos and roots: the case of Geoffrey Bawa and his architecture 16. Designing for adaptability and sustainability in regional architecture: lessons from residences in North East Brazil 17. Infrastructural Peripheries in the City-Region: Airport Spatial Influences Part 5: REIMAGINING THE ARTEFACT The Infinity Porch. Mythical-ities: Spatial transcriptions of votive offerings dedicated to the Nymphs. A Wild Plant of Life. Forget-me-Not. Mis-reading. Wound-up. Waxed. Rotted. Yuanlin Region and Piranesi Region. Panam: The Lost City of Muslin. New Babylon. Resurrecting Architectural Ghosts [An Anticipation of Collective Memory]
