Brings together over forty key essays illustrating the range of ideas embodied by the term. Authored by important critics, historians, and architects such as Kenneth Frampton, Lewis Mumford, Sigfried Giedion, and Alan Colquhoun, this book represents the history of regionalist thinking in architecture from the early twentieth century.
Organized as an accumulation of short chapters that address the workings of matter and force material science, the lessons of art and architectural history, and the influence of architecture on culture and vice versa. Here, the authors hone in on the many facets of architecture and illuminate their theories with great thought and simplicity.