Region

Part 1: THEORISED REGIONS

1. A ‘true organ of Humanity’: on the Anti-feminist Architectural Regionalism of Comtean Positivism in Victorian Britain

Matthew Wilson

2. The Question Concerning Types: A Review

Davide Landi

3. Four decades on three fronts: the unfinished projects of Critical Regionalism

Stylianos Giamarelos

4. On the Unique Intertwining of Region, Nature, and Architecture in Norway

Marta Piórkowska

Part 2: CONTESTED REGIONS

5. On ‘Region’: Alterity and Regional Encounters in a Postcolonial Archipelago

Amanda Achmadi

6. The Azorean archipelago: the invention of a political region

Inês Vieira Rodrigues

7. Dismantling the Territorial Exclusions

Esra Can

8. Holding the Street: An Assemblage of Nicosia’s Borders

George Themistokleous

9. The implications of power on the status of women in society and its reciprocal relationship with the home space in Azerbaijan, Iran

Neda Abbasimaleki and Cagri Sanliturk

Part 3: HERITAGE REGIONS

10. How Wealth Kills Craft

Dana Buntrock

11. Material Culture and Decolonisation: Post-Partition Lahore

Mehwish Abid and Ghiasuddin Pir

12. Southwestern Fantasy: Pueblo Revival and regional authenticity in New Mexico

Harrison Blackman

13. The Mediterranean: Between Vernacular and Contemporary. Tradition, Modernity and Tourism in the Architecture of Germán Rodríguez Arias

María Sebastián Sebastián

Part 4: FUTURE REGIONS

14. The Case of Capri: Landscape, Regional Culture and Modern Architecture

Klaus Tragbar

15. Oscillating between cosmos and roots: the case of Geoffrey Bawa and his architecture

Mengbi Li and Hing-Wah Chau

16. Designing for adaptability and sustainability in regional architecture: lessons from residences in North East Brazil

Mila Santos et al.

17. Infrastructural Peripheries in the City-Region: Airport Spatial Influences

The Infinity Porch

Mythical-ities: Spatial transcriptions of votive offerings dedicated to the Nymphs

A Wild Plant of Life

Forget-me-Not

Mis-reading

Wound-up. Waxed. Rotted

Yuanlin Region and Piranesi Region

Panam: The Lost City of Muslin

New Babylon

Resurrecting Architectural Ghosts [An Anticipation of Collective Memory]

Biography

Simon Richards is a Senior Lecturer in Architectural History and Theory at Loughborough University. An art historian by training, his research and publications focus on the themes of comparative aesthetics, architectural tradition and heritage, as well as environmental psychology and philosophy. His previous books include Le Corbusier and the Concept of Self (Yale 2003) and Architect Knows Best: Environmental Determinism in Architecture Culture from 1956 to the Present (Ashgate 2016), and he is currently collaborating on a major project on Constantinos Doxiadis and the Delos Symposia.

Robert Schmidt III is a Reader in Architectural Design at Loughborough University and leads the Adaptable Futures Group. His practice experience includes an extended period in New York with the prestigious and award-winning firm, Herb Beckhard and Frank Richlan (HB+FR), and he has received numerous plaudits for his design work including the Jeffrey J. Pilling Scholarship for Excellence in Design and the Pella Architectural Scholarship. Robert’s research focuses on the themes of adaptability and re-use, on which he has published several papers and books.

Cagri Sanliturk is a Lecturer in Architecture and Politics at Loughborough University. His research and publications focus on the relation between theory and practice, seeking to understand architecture through the lenses of politics, performance art, visual art and narrative. He is particularly interested in exploring everyday life and spatial practices, often in situ with real communities, and in tracing how these relate to the controlling power within conflicted and divided societies.

Garyfalia (Falli) Palaiologou is a Senior Lecturer in Urban Design at Loughborough University. Previously, she was Research Fellow at the UCL Bartlett School of Architecture at the Space Syntax Laboratory, funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). Falli’s research and publications concern the study of urban form through urban morphology and mapping methodologies, revealing the processes of urban change in a diverse range of settings from inner city residential typologies through to UNESCO heritage landscapes.