Covering a rich selection of the most outstanding examples of design from all over the world, Liane Lefaivre and Alexander Tzonis, who introduced the concept of Critical Regionalism to architecture, present an enlightening, concise historical analysis of the endurance of regionalism and the ceaseless drive for globalization. New case studies include current cutting-edge projects in Japan, Africa, China, and the United States.
Architecture of Regionalism in the Age of Globalization offers undergraduate and graduate students of architecture, geography, history, environmental studies, and other related fields an accessible, vivid, and scholarly perspective of this major conflict as it relates to the design and to the future of the human-made environment.
Liane Lefaivre is Professor and Chair (retired) of Architectural History and Theory at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. Her latest book is Rebel Modernists: Viennese Architecture since Otto Wagner, London 2017.
Alexander Tzonis is Professor Emeritus at the at the Technical University of Delft, Netherlands. He has taught at Harvard, Yale, and, in Paris, the Collège de France among others.
Among several books Lefaivre and Tzonis co-authored are Times of Creative Destruction: Shaping Buildings and Cities in the late C20TH (2017) and Emergence of Modern Architecture (2004).