Human Experience and Place: Sustaining Identity (Paperback)

EditorIal 5
Helen Castle

About the Guest-Editor 6
Paul Brislin

INTRODUCTION 8
Identity, Place and Human Experience
Paul Brislin

Newness, Tradition and Identity: Existential Content and Meaning in Architecture 14
Juhani Pallasmaa

In Conversation 22
Peter Zumthor and Juhani Pallasma

IDENTITY AND LOCALITY 26

Appropriating, Reclaiming and Inventing Identity Through Architecture 28
Farrokh Derakhshani

A Reflexive Conversation: Bridge School and Liyuan Library 34
Li Xiaodong

Identity Through the Grounding of Experience in Place 40
Rick Joy

Earthworks 46
Josep Lluís Mateo

Outlines 52
Mauricio Pezo and Sofia von Ellrichshausen

IDENTITY AND ECONOMY 58

The Future is Unwritten: Global Culture, Identity and Economy 60
Murray Fraser

School in Gando, Burkina Faso 66
Diébédo Francis Kéré

The Big Feet Aesthetic and the Art of Survival 72
Kongjian Yu

Reading the Wind and Weather: The Meteorological Architecture of Studio Mumbai 78
Kazi Ashraf

Peripatetic Infrastructure 84
Jonathan Kirschenfeld

IDENTITY AND SCALE 90

Mapping Scales of Urban Identity 92
Ricky Burdett

Essence, Scale and Natural Events 98
Paul Brislin

Common Artefacts 104
Christopher CM Lee

The Breathing Tropical High-Rise 112
Wong Mun Summ, Richard Hassell and Alina Yeo

The Problem of Scale 116
Sean Godsell

The Reluctant Architect: An Interview with Wang Shu of Amateur Architects Studio 122
Edward Denison and Guang Yu Ren

AFTERWORD 130

Developing a Sensitivity to Locale and ‘Human Experience’
Jayne Merkel

COUNTERPOINT 136

A Pivotal Point: On the Edge of History 136
Peter Buchanan

Contributors 140