Architecture of Regionalism in the Age of Globalization : Peaks and Valleys in the Flat World (Hardcover, 2 ed)

Preface: Why Regionalism? Peaks and Valleys in the Flat World Introduction: Universe Unbound, the End of Regions? 1. The Origins: Regional Architecture and the Dawn of Classical Architecture 2. Regional into Regionalist: Cathedrals, Palaces, and the case of the Casa Dei Crescenzi as a Manifesto 3. Searching for Identity in a Flat Archipelago of Classical Garden-Villas 4. The Picturesque Revolt: Liberty, the Merits of Chaos, and the ‘Genius of the Place in All’ 5. From the Physiocrats and Rousseau to Goethe's Regionalist Architecture 6. Regionalism as a force for liberation and national identity 7. Post-Napoleonic Nationalist Regionalism, the Social Question, and the Emergence of Environmental Architecture 8. Regionalism Triumphant and Corrupted: Out-of-Place Places, Emporia, World-Fairs, New States, Colonial Structures, and the Specter of Totalitarian Regimes 9. Global Regionalism set against International Style; Lewis Mumford and his Contemporaries 10. De-regionalization in Post-WWII Reconstruction, Urban Renewal, and Fake Regionalism 11. The Critical Regionalist Response to Multinational De-regionalization 12. Critical Regionalism in this Dark Era of Environmental Disasters, Inequality, and End-of-Diversity Wasteland Coda: Re-regionalisation and Engagement in a Global World