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This book brings together complex fields of knowledge and globally splintered discourses on a subject that is experienced not only by scholars, but in the everyday lives of people around the world. There is a common complaint about the loss of identity which, to a substantial degree, is being associated with the built environment in cities and specifically with their architecture. |Architecture and Identity| takes a global, multidisciplinary look on how identities in contemporary architecture are constructed. The general hypothesis underlying this book is that in a globalized world identity in architecture cannot be easily derived from distinct indigenous patterns. The book presents forty contributions from various disciplines aiming to destroy the myth of an inheritable or otherwise prefabricated identity. Some authors dismantle constructs of identity that have long been considered as |solid| and unbreakable while others meticulously unravel the |construction| process of identities in

File Name:Architecture and Identity
Posted By:Peter Herrle,Erik Wegerhoff
Published on 2008 by LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN-10:3825810887
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