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Critical Regionalism

A topic within Architectural Theory & Criticism, itself one of 9 topics in that field and part of Architecture & Built Environment.

Reading on Critical Regionalism

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2 works

Essay1981

The Grid and the Pathway

Alexander Tzonis & Liane Lefaivre

Coins critical regionalism through a close study of Dimitris and Suzana Antonakakis, arguing that fusing Aris Konstantinidis's rationalist grid with Dimitris Pikionis's topographically sensitive pathways lets a regional architecture defamiliarise the universal without retreating into nostalgic vernacular revival.

Essay1983

Towards a Critical Regionalism: Six Points for an Architecture of Resistance

Kenneth Frampton

A regional architecture can resist placeless global modernity without retreating into sentimental vernacular pastiche, by mediating universal technique through local light, climate and topography.

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