Architectural Regionalism

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ISBN: 9781568986166
English edition
Princeton Architectural Press
Softcover, 496 pages
15,2 x 22,9 cm
black & white
March 2007
€30,00 (excl. VAT)

Architectural Regionalism

Collected Writings on Place, Identity, Modernity, and Tradition

Vincent B. Canizaro

This comprehensive reader brings together over 40 key essays illustrating the full range of ideas embodied by the term regionalism. 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 20th century to today.

These seminal texts – many of which are out of print and hard to locate – are organized around themes that include regionalism and rapid modernization, modernism, historicism, regional planning, bio-regionalism and critical regionalism. Also included are a small group of recent, previously unpublished essays that extend the notion of architectural regionalism into the future.