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  1. Resisting Postmodern Architecture : Critical regionalism before globalisation
    Published: 2022
    Publisher:  UCL Press, London

    Since its first appearance in 1981, critical regionalism has enjoyed a celebrated worldwide reception. The 1990s increased its pertinence as an architectural theory that defends the cultural identity of a place resisting the homogenising onslaught of... more

     

    Since its first appearance in 1981, critical regionalism has enjoyed a celebrated worldwide reception. The 1990s increased its pertinence as an architectural theory that defends the cultural identity of a place resisting the homogenising onslaught of globalisation. Today, its main principles (such as acknowledging the climate, history, materials, culture and topography of a specific place) are integrated in architects’ education across the globe. But at the same time, the richer cross-cultural history of critical regionalism has been reduced to schematic juxtapositions of ‘the global’ with ‘the local’. Retrieving both the globalising branches and the overlooked cross-cultural roots of critical regionalism, Resisting Postmodern Architecture resituates critical regionalism within the wider framework of debates around postmodern architecture, the diverse contexts from which it emerged, and the cultural media complex that conditioned its reception. In so doing, it explores the intersection of three areas of growing historical and theoretical interest: postmodernism, critical regionalism and globalisation. Based on more than 50 interviews and previously unpublished archival material from six countries, the book transgresses existing barriers to integrate sources in other languages into anglophone architectural scholarship. In so doing, it shows how the ‘periphery’ was not just a passive recipient, but also an active generator of architectural theory and practice. Stylianos Giamarelos challenges long-held ‘central’ notions of supposedly ‘international’ discourses of the recent past, and outlines critical regionalism as an unfinished project apposite for the 21st century on the fronts of architectural theory, history and historiography.

     

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  2. Rethinking Density. Art, Culture, and Urban Practices
    Contributor: Batista, Anamarija (Publisher); Kovács, Szilvia (Publisher); Lesky, Carina (Publisher)
    Published: 2017
    Publisher:  Sternberg Press, Berlin

    Rethinking Density: Art, Culture, and Urban Practices considers new perspectives and discussions related to the category of density, which for a long time has been part of urban-planning discourses and is now regaining the attention of artists and... more

     

    Rethinking Density: Art, Culture, and Urban Practices considers new perspectives and discussions related to the category of density, which for a long time has been part of urban-planning discourses and is now regaining the attention of artists and practitioners from a number of different disciplines. In an interplay of models, coping strategies, and experimental approaches, this publication combines research from cultural studies, artistic research, sound studies as well as architectural and urban theory. The issues discussed include the consideration of retroactive architectural design as a means to retrace the historical layers of a city, a proposal for spacesharing concepts as instruments for urban revitalization processes, and a case study on the potential for new sonic social spaces as subversive modes to undermine prevailing power structures.

     

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    Source: OAPEN
    Contributor: Batista, Anamarija (Publisher); Kovács, Szilvia (Publisher); Lesky, Carina (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783956793622
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    Subjects: Theory of art
    Other subjects: density; cultural studies, artistic research, sound studies; architectural theory; urban theory
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (265 p.)
  3. Virtual Library Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann
    Published: 2017
    Publisher:  Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, Dresden ; Technische Universität Dresden