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architectural semiotics
Author_Hisham Elkadi
Built Heritage
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Contemporary Societies
Coolness Index
corbusier
Cultural Built Heritage
cultural identity in glass architecture
Descriptive Defi Nition
duc
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Electrochromic Glazing
Elevated Terminals
environmental building materials
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faA?ade technology
Fritted Glazing
Grey Range
Group III
hall
Hampton Court Palace
hardwick
Information Infrastructures
Integral Natural Systems
Jus Soli
LC
light
modernist symbolism
panes
Prismatic Glazing
refl
regional urban development
SC
SHGC
Solar Heat Gain
technology
Thermal Transmittance
Tinted Glazing
Town Hall
urban identity formation
Van Der Ryn
viollet
Visible Light Transmittance
Visible Transmittance
Product details
- ISBN 9781138258839
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 19 Oct 2016
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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When designing, architects are responding to and creating a relationship between identity, culture and architectural style. This book discusses whether the extent of the use of glass facades has increased, or indeed enhanced, the creation of meaningful place-making, thereby creating a cultural identity of 'place'. Looking at the development of perceptions of glass facades in different cultures, it shows how modernist 'glass' buildings are perceived as an expression of technical achievement, as symbols of global economic success and as setting a neutral platform for multi-cultural societies - all of which are difficult for urban developers and policy makers to resist in our era of globalization. Drawing on a number of modern and heritage design projects from Europe, the USA, the Middle East and South East Asia, the book reviews efforts of some regional towns and local places to move up the economic ladder by adopting a more 'global' aesthetic.
Professor Hisham Elkadi is Professor of Architecture and Head of the Architecture Programme in the School of Art & Design at the University of Ulster, Northern Ireland.
