Post-Western Histories of Architecture
Author:   Pilar Maria Guerrieri ,  Marco Biraghi
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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Pages:   230
Publication Date:   23 June 2023
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Author:   Pilar Maria Guerrieri ,  Marco Biraghi
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.580kg
ISBN:  

9781032362915


ISBN 10:   103236291
Pages:   230
Publication Date:   23 June 2023
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Acknowledgements. List of Images. Introduction. 1.Architecture as a ‘Political Act’. 2.A Dialogue with Tradition: the Case of Italy. 3.Principles of North-European Sustainability. 4.The Construction of the Indian Identity. 5.The Latin American Political Context and its Architecture. 6.Using the African Context. 7.‘Indirect’ Context: the Case of Japan. 8.China and the Re-Invention of Tradition. 9.Re-embracing the Aboriginal Model: Australia. 10.Context as an Opportunity. A Way of Viewing Architecture. List of Works. Bibliography. Index.

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Pilar Maria Guerrieri is an architectural historian who has lived between Italy, the UK and India for almost ten years. She has a PhD in Architectural Composition and a second degree in Philosophy. Currently, she teaches History of Architecture at the Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy. She is the author of Maps of Delhi (Niyogi, 2017), Negotiating Cultures: Delhi’s Architecture and Planning from 1912 to 1962 (Oxford University Press, 2018) and Egizio Nichelli Architetto (1937–1991) (Franco Angeli, 2022). Marco Biraghi is a professor at the Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy, where he teaches History of Contemporary Architecture. His published works include Project of Crisis: Manfredo Tafuri and Contemporary Architecture (The MIT Press, 2013), Storia dell’architettura italiana 1985–2015 (with S. Micheli, Einaudi, 2013), L’architetto come intellettuale (Einaudi, 2019), Questa è architettura. Il progetto come filosofia della prassi (Einaudi, 2021) and Storia dell’architettura contemporanea II 1945–2023 (Einaudi, 2023).

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