National myths and identity discourses
By: Patricia Morgado, Itohan Osayimwese, Meltem Al, Seçil Binboga and Ömer Polat, Daniela V. de Freitas Simões, Ying-Fen Chen
Contributors: International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments; University of California, Berkeley. Center for Environmental Design Research
Series: Traditional dwellings and settlements working paper series -- volume 247; Traditional dwellings and settlements working paper series -- v. 247.
Publisher: International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Berkeley, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 93
Subjects: Nationalism and architecture; Congresses; Architecture and society
Notes: Cover title.

Selected papers from the 2012 IASTE conference.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Diego Rivera and the "building" of Mexican identity / Patricia Morgado; title: Architecture and the myth of authenticity during the German period in Cameroon / Itohan Osayimwese; title: The metamorphosis of the wall: a mythical/ideological representation of urban space; title: the case of Ankara / Meltem Al, Seçil Binboga and Ömer Polat; title: On the Portuguese ultimate national myth / Daniela V. de Freitas Simões; title: The constructing and changing of cinematic Hong Kong through the Taiwanese cult followings' eyes / Ying-Fen Chen.