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- catalog abstract ""This edited collection of essays brings together the author's key writings on the cultural, technological and theoretical developments reshaping modern architecture into a responsive and diverse movement for the twenty-first century." "Chris Abel approaches his subject from a wide range of knowledge, including cybernetics, philosophy, new human science and development planning, as well as his experience as a teacher and critic on four continents. The result is a global perspective on the changing nature of modern architecture at the turn of the millennium. Including two new chapters, this revised and expanded second edition offers radical insights into such topics as: the impact of information technology on customized architectural production; the relations between tradition and innovation; prospects for a global eco-culture, and the local and global forces shaping the architecture and cities of Asia."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12028616.
- catalog created "c2000".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "c2000".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2000".
- catalog description ""This edited collection of essays brings together the author's key writings on the cultural, technological and theoretical developments reshaping modern architecture into a responsive and diverse movement for the twenty-first century." "Chris Abel approaches his subject from a wide range of knowledge, including cybernetics, philosophy, new human science and development planning, as well as his experience as a teacher and critic on four continents. The result is a global perspective on the changing nature of modern architecture at the turn of the millennium. Including two new chapters, this revised and expanded second edition offers radical insights into such topics as: the impact of information technology on customized architectural production; the relations between tradition and innovation; prospects for a global eco-culture, and the local and global forces shaping the architecture and cities of Asia."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Foreword / Suha Ozkan -- Science and Technology -- Ditching the dinosaur sanctuary -- Urban chaos or self-organization? -- Design method and new science -- Return to craft manufacture -- Visible and invisible complexities -- The Bio-Tech Architecture Workshop -- Critical Theory -- Architectural language games -- Role of metaphor in changing architectural concepts -- Function of tacit knowing in learning design -- The essential tension -- Tradition, innovation and linked solutions -- Regionalism and Globalization -- Architecture as identity -- Living in a hybrid world -- Regional transformations -- Prime objects -- Localization versus globalization -- Towards a global eco-culture -- Asian urban futures.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-261) and index.".
- catalog extent "xvii, 270 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Architecture and identity.".
- catalog identifier "0750642467".
- catalog isFormatOf "Architecture and identity.".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "c2000".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Oxford ; Boston : Architectural Press,".
- catalog relation "Architecture and identity.".
- catalog subject "720/.1 21".
- catalog subject "Architecture Environmental aspects.".
- catalog subject "Architecture and philosophy.".
- catalog subject "Identity (Psychology)".
- catalog subject "NA2500 .A392 2000".
- catalog subject "Regionalism in architecture.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Foreword / Suha Ozkan -- Science and Technology -- Ditching the dinosaur sanctuary -- Urban chaos or self-organization? -- Design method and new science -- Return to craft manufacture -- Visible and invisible complexities -- The Bio-Tech Architecture Workshop -- Critical Theory -- Architectural language games -- Role of metaphor in changing architectural concepts -- Function of tacit knowing in learning design -- The essential tension -- Tradition, innovation and linked solutions -- Regionalism and Globalization -- Architecture as identity -- Living in a hybrid world -- Regional transformations -- Prime objects -- Localization versus globalization -- Towards a global eco-culture -- Asian urban futures.".
- catalog title "Architecture and identity : responses to cultural and technological change / Chris Abel ; with a foreword by Suha Ozkan.".
- catalog type "text".