Architecture of Regionalism in the Age of Globalization: Peaks and Valleys in the Flat World

摘要

We are used to considering ourselves children of globalisation; sometimes protagonists, sometimes victims, but always witnesses to the current movement that appears to transform a plethora of regional economies into an overarching global economy. Readers therefore might be forgiven for assuming that Lefaivre's and Tzonis's new title refers to our present day and age in general and to contemporary architecture and recent regionalist debate in particular. But it does not.