Architectural Regionalism: Collected Writings on Place, Identity, Modernity, and Tradition
Essays in defense of regionalism go down more smoothly in an age  of globalism and numbing sameness. Customization as self-expression is  taking hold from the auto industry to sports shoes, so why not in  architecture? From his vantage point at the University of Texas at San  Antonio, Canizaro argues that regionalism, far from fostering  provincialism, can "open up the possibility of shared purpose, in which the  concerns of here are understood as linked to there: ecologically,  economically, and socially." --Architect, April 2007This comprehensive reader brings together over 40 key essays  illustrating the full range of ideas embodied by the term. Authored by  important critics, historians, and architects... --RIBA, December 2006