Acculturating the Shopping Centre

ISBN-13: 9781472485045 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 180 str.

Janina Gosseye; Tom Avermaete

Opis

This book examines whether the shopping centre should be qualified as a global architectural type that moves across national and cultural borders in the slipstream of globalization, or should instead be understood as an expression of negotiations between mall developers and local actors such as architects/ governments/ citizens on the other.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. Westfield’s Architecture, from the Antipodes to London  2. Eastern Promises  3. The Latin American Shopping Centre: Cultural Translation, Symbolic Adaptation, and Typological Evolution of Commercial Architecture in Latin American Cities  4. El Helicoide: Venezuela’s Futuristic Living Ruin  5. A Domesticated Shopping Mall in Modern Tehran: The (re)development of Ekbatan  6. Re-centring Tema: From Isotropic Commercial Centres to an Intense Infrastructure of Street-vending  7. The Boulevard Commercial Project in Manado, Indonesia: Trickled-down Globalization versus a Catalysed Super-local Coda The Travelling Type: How Buildings and Practices Migrate Across Cultures