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This chapter uses the framework of the commercial office high-rise building to chart the evolution of regionalist and national ideas in forming an identity of the tropical through strategies ranging from an essentially climatic position to an essentially pastiche approach, and swinging towards an iconic approach in formal identity. Straddling these positions is the critical regionalist approach which is argued as a more layered, deeply thought-out approach. The chapter attempts to link the theoretical framework of critical regionalisms, their expressive outcomes and their link to built forms and physical expression in high-rise development.
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Jahn Kassim, S., Zainal Abidin, N., Mohd Nawawi, N. (2018). Criticality, Symbolic Capital and the High-Rise Form. In: Jahn Kassim, S., Mohd Nawawi, N., Ibrahim, M. (eds) Modernity, Nation and Urban-Architectural Form. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66131-5_8
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