Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #254624 in Books
• Published on: 2006-10-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 464 pages

Synopsis
In this rapidly globalizing world, any investigation of architecture inevitably leads to considerations of regionalism. But despite its omnipresence in contemporary practice and theory, architectural regionalism remains a fluid concept, its historical development and current influence largely undocumented. This comprehensive reader brings together over forty key essays illustrating the full range of ideas embodied by the term. 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 twentieth century to today.

Customer Reviews

Overly text-heavy, too focused on US architectural regionalism
I was a little disappointed by this book - it is a reader, a collection of previous journal articles assembled into a book. That's fair enough, but there seems little coherence. Furthermore, it is just severely text heavy, probably less than 10% of the book is graphical. Added to this, I would estimate that over 80% of the articles bound together in this book pertain to regionalism within the USA. As such, this book may have a limited appeal to those wishing to learn about architectural regionalism from a broader geographic perspective.