TY - BOOK AU - Tzonis, Alexander AU - Lefaivre, Liane AU - Stagno, Bruno TI - Tropical architecture: critical regionalism in the age of globalization SN - 471496081 U1 - 711.42 T998 PY - 2001/// CY - New York PB - Willey-Academy KW - ARQUITECTURA CARIBEÑA (REGIÓN) KW - ARQUITECTURA TROPICAL KW - INDIA KW - ARQUITECTURA Y CLIMA KW - ARQUITECTURA Y GLOBALIZACIÓN KW - CANAL DE PANAMÁ KW - ARQUITECTURA KW - IDENTIDAD CULTURAL N1 - Tropical critical regionalism: Introductory Comments.-The suppression and rethinking of regionalism and tropicalism after1945.-Globalization: some cultural dilemmas.-Topicality.-Modernizing appropriations/appropriating modernity.-Architecture and national identity.-Architecture and city in the Caribbean: the reinvention of paradise.-- The architecture of the Panama Canal: Colonialism, syncretism and coming to terms with the tropics.- Designing and building in the tropics.-- Architectural responses in tropical India.-The green agenda.-Three tropical design paradigms.-Rethinking the city in the tropics ER -