Vernacular Architecture and Regional Design: Cultural Process and Environmental Response

ISBN-13: 9780750659338 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 210 str.

Kingston Wm Heath

Opis

Sustainable design requires that design practitioners respond to a particular set of social, cultural and environmental conditions. This work examines how architects and designers have applied a variety of tactics to achieve culturally and environmentally appropriate design solutions.

Spis treści

Foreword; Preface: Regionalism Reconsidered; Section One: Exploring the Nature of Place
1. An Interpretative Model for Assessing Regional Identity Amidst Change; 2. Architecture as Cultural Production; Section Two: From Regional Theory to a Situated Regional Response; 3. Introduction; Part One: People; 4. Howard Davis; 5. Nihal Perea; 6. Jo Noero; Part Two: Locale; 7. Teddy Cruz; 8. Darren Petrucci; Part Three: Environment; 9. Nina Maritz; 10. Carol A. Wilson; 11 Glenn Murcutt.

O autorze

WM. HEATH KINGSTON