Architecture and Identity
edited by
Peter Herde and Erik Wegerhoff
LIT
Content
Architecture and Identity? Steppenwolf and the Carriers of
Change
Peter Herrle 11
1 The Making of Local Identity 23
Identity, Work Process and Appropriation of Space
Yvonne Mautner 25
The World as a Coliection of Postcards: Evita's Architectural
Project(ion)s and the Making of Argentinean Identity
Liliana Ruth Feierstein 39
Far from Home: Contemporary Siovenian Architecture in the
Making
Petra Ceferin 47
The Japanese Example - or the Art of Appropriation
Astrid Edlinger 57
The Architecture of Balinization
Amanda Achmadi 73
Talking Japan
Florian Urban 91
Beyond Style: A Case Study in Contemporary Japanese
Residential Architecture
Thomas Daniell 103
Images of Switzerland at the World Fairs - Ephemeral
Architecture as a Symbol for National Identity?
Christine Müller 113
Monument without Qualities: Inscribing Narratives of Self in
Public Space
Shundana Yusaf 123
2 The Global and the Local 135
Retrospective on the Social Housing Policy in Aigeria - Glances
on the Cultural Referents of the Aigerian Architects
Meriem Chabou 137
The Impact of Globalization on Local Architecture in Ghana
George W K. Intsiful 149
What (a) State?
Brazilianess via Architecture in West Africa
Uche Isichei 157
The Construction of Cultural Identity in Contemporary
Architecture
Patricia Morgado 165
Searching for Identity: Architecture and IJrbanism in Uganda
Mark R. 0. Olweny and Jacqueline Wadulo 177
A Tale of Two Cities: Competing Literary Visions for
Contemporary Latin American Architecture
J. Agustfn Pasten B. 191
Iconic Architecture and Capitalist Globalization
Leslie Sklair 207
Architecture, Globalization and Identity
Anthony D. King 221
3 Theoretical Concepts - Revisited 233
John McAndrew, the Museum of Modern Art, and the
'Naturalization' of Modern Architecture in America, ca 1940
Keith L. Eggener 235
Frampton's Critical Regionalism Reconsidered: The 'Mexican',
Barragan, and 'Metropolitan' Theories
Leonardo Dfaz-Borioli 243
Transculturation and Architecture in Latin America
Felipe Hernandez 251
The (Human) Habitat: Humanism, Architecture and Habitat
67/04
Cynthia I. Hammond 259
The Vernacular - Or: Towards a New Brutalism
Manuel Herz 271
Image and Identity: Architecture of 'Non-Lieux' in Mexico 1990-
2000
Johanna Lozoya Meckes 281
Linking Notions: A Reconstructed Perspective of Identity and
Architecture
Carmen Popescu 289
Le Corbusier's Doubts Concerning Canonical Origins
Pamela Theodora 299
4 Diversity as a Pattern 01 Local Architecture 305
The Centennial of Post-Ottoman Identity: Contemporary Design
Coneepts in the Balkans and the Middle East
Zeynep Aygen 307
The Work of Vilanova Artigas and Lina Bo Bardi, 1950 - 1970
Regionalldentity and Modern Arehiteeture in the Posteolonial,
Brazilian Context
Steffen Lehmann 321
Shanghai: Cosmopolitanism as Identity?
Yongyi Lu and Dehua Li 335
Contradietions at Work: Towards a Stereophonie Identity?
Indrek Peil 347
Building Identity?
On the Representation of State and/or National Pereeptions
Nowadays. Berlin's European Embassies as a Case Study.
Alberto Alessi 361
Nothing Is Foreign: Strategies of Brazilianisation in Modern
Brazilian Arehiteeture
Styliane Philippou 375
Sehisms of Urban Programming: The Hybrid Spaees of the
Balkans/ 'Hybrid' Spaees: hybrida, hibrida
Güven Ari' Sargin 391
What Identity, Whose Identity?
Dogan Kuban 403
5 Identity and (Invented) Traditions 411
The Uluru Kata-Tjuta Cultural Centre
Centring Aboriginality or a site of resistance?
Carolynne Baker 413
Britomart: Contemporary Public Transport Interchange Meets
Traditional Maori Meeting House
Clinton Bird 423
Negotiating Cultural Identity at Tehran's AI-Ghadir Mosque
Alisa Eimen 435
Eclectic Architecture in Indonesia: Looking for Identity?
Florian Steinberg 449
Using the Past to Serve the Future -
The Quest for an Architectural Chinese Renaissance Style
Representing Republican China in the 1920s-1930s
Eduard Kögel 455
Portuguese Contemporary Architecture - A Struggle between
History and Geography
Madalena Cunha Matos 469
The Politics of Culture and the Problem of Tradition:
Re-evaluating Regionalist Interpretations of the Architecture of
Geoffrey Bawa
Carl O'Coill and Kathleen Watt 483
Notes on Contributors 495
