Architecture and Identity: Responses to Culture and Technological Change

Part I: Science and Technology p.17, 1. Evolutionary planning: Biological models' Self organizing systems' Urban patterns, Megastructure versus fragmentation p.19, 2. Ditching the dinosaur sanctuary: Performance criteria' Myths and misconceptions' Integrated design, Variable production' Numerically controlled machines' The cybernetic, factory' Changing human roles' Universal machines for specialized markets p.30, 3. Empathy in science and design: Theories of knowledge' Particularism Sense of place' New paradigm, human science' Competing theories' Environmental dialogues, Common focus p.45, 4. Return to craft manufacture: Bridging the gap' Design development s Smart tools' CAD + CAM = craftsmanship' Responsive architecture' Battle for the real Modern
Movement p.53, 5. Visible and invisible complexities: Adaptive machines' Responsive systems' Age of complexity
Customized design and manufacture' Cybercity, Pseudo complexities, Sham images' Inclusive approach' Local space and global mind p.63, 6. The virtual studio: Lost knowledge' New model of design education' The Biotech
Architecture Workshop• Another dirnension, Networking the studio p.86, 7. Genetic designs: a memetic critique: Genetic algorithms' The mimetic perspectivc, Contentious issues, Definition Transmission, Embodirnent, Selection Autonomy , Embedded algorithms, p.98, 8. Technically embodied selves: Techniques and the human' Knowing bodies' The enigma of the self, Active externalism, Fields of being, Modes of transmission' Memes, and types' Digital distractions, Second lives' Multiple selves p.110, Part 11: Critical theory p.139, 9. Cultures as complex wholes: a developmental perspective: Genetic epistemology" Cultural evolution" Piaget's equilibrium model, Unselfconscious and self-conscious cultures, Alexander's error, Reflective cultures p.141, 10. Architectural language games: Analogical thinking' Language as a model" Linguistic theory" Language games' Critical relativism' Methods of criticism' Levels of interpretation Partisan criticism" Different systems of belief Architecture and social identity p.150, 11. Tacit knowing in learning to design: Tacit knowing' Indwelling' Bodies of knowledge Architectural paradigms' Role-playing, Educational implications p.171, 12. Metaphor in architectural creativity p.181, Definitions of metaphor' Metaphor in architectural criticism' Dynamic and creative role of metaphor New architectural concepts" Addendum p.181, 13. The essential tension: Flirtation with form Ways of thinking, Complementary opposites, West meets East 'Timeless modernity, Green machines' Another kind of ambiguity p.196, 14. Tradition, innovation and linked solutions: Meaning of a paradigm, Disciplinary matrix' Dynamic model' Continuity and discontinuity, Modernist ambiguities' Innovation as integration p.214,
Part III: Regionalism and globalization p.225, 15. Architecture as identity: the essence of architecture: Theoretical approaches, The problem of essence, Universalists versus, relativists, The diversity of ordinary language, Meaning is use Ways of being p.227, 16. Living in a hybrid world: built sources of Malaysian identity: Relations of degree Architectural journeys' urban infusions, World, architectures, Adaptive qualities, Cultural identity, Modern architecture, and neo colonialism, Emergent cultures, 17. Regional transformations: Cross cultural effects, Mixed lessons from colonial architecture, Questions of definition Bauhaus brainwash• Recent initiatives, Renaissance of Islamic architecture, Changing urban context, Spectrum of approaches s Challenge to Western hegemony p.254, 18.Localization versus globalization: Hybridization, Structure of Asian cities, Pacific shift , Global paradox, Pacific Age vision p.275, 19.Towards a global eco culture: Post colonial patterns of developments Alternative development paradigms, Choosing technology s Self build housing, Hybrid technologies, Modern regionalism, Implernentation, Cultural typologies, New rationality p.284, Asian urban futures: the view from the East: Charles Correa and the New Bombay Plan, Ken Yeang and the bioclimatic city s Tay Kheng Soon and the tropical megacity, Liu Thai Ker and the constellation city, Force for change, The development city model p.302, 21.A fragile habitation: coming to terms with the Australian landscape: Urbanized population, Archetypal Australian dwelling, Suburban patterns, New arrivals, Plan typologies, Illusion of sustainability p.332, 22. Reimagining the Vertical Garden City: The Garden City legacy, End of the great Australian dream, High rise innovations, The Vertical Architecture, Studio, Vertical farming, Multidimensional spatial structures, Expansion of the public realm p.348

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