CRITICAL REGIONALISM EMERGED AS AN ARCHITECURAL CONCEPT IN THE EARLY 1980s. FOR LEADING THEORISTS SUCH AS KENNETH FRAMPTON, ALEXANDER TZONIS, AND LANE LEFAIVRE, AND IS SEEN AS AN APPROACH TO ARCHITECTURE THAT STRIVES TO COUNTER THE PLCELESSNESS AND LACK OF IDENTITY OF THE INTERNATIONAL STYLE, BUT ALSO REJECTS THE WHIMSICAL, INDIVIDUALUALISM AND ORNAMENTATION OF POSTMODERN ARCHITECTURE. CRITICAL REGIONALISM IS SAID TO BE SEEN AS A SENSE OF VERNACULAR ARCHITECTURE.
ACCORDING TO ALEXANDER TZONIS, CRITICAL REGIONALISM NEED NOT DIRECTLY DRAW FROM THE CONTEXT; RATHER ELEMENTS CAN BE STRIPPED OF CONTEXT BUT USED IN UNFAMILIAR WAYS. HIS AIM WAS TO MAKE IT EVIDENT THAT DISTRUPTION AND LOSS OF SPACE IS SEEN AS A REFLECTION AS WELL AS SELF EVALUATION. KENNETH FRAMPTON DIFFERED A BIT IN HIS EXPLAINATION OF THE TOPIC. IN HIS SEMINAL WRITINGS OF THE TOPIC CRITICAL REGIONALISM, TOWARDS A CRITICAL REGIONALISM: SIX POINTS FOR AN …show more content…
TWO EXAMPLES THAT FRAMPTON USED TO DISCUSS CRITICAL REGIONALISM WERE JORN UTZON AND ALVAR AALTO. UTZON’S BAGSVAERD CHURCH SHOWS THE SYNTHESIS BETWEEN CULTURE AND CIVILIZATION. THIS IS REVEALED BY THE RATIONAL, MODULAR, NEUTRAL AND ECONOMIC, PARTLY PREFABICATED CONCRETE OUTER SHELL [CIVILZATION] VERSUS THE VERY UNECONOMIC, ORGANIC INTERIOR CONCRETE SHELL SIGNIFYING ITS MANIPULATION OF LIGHT SACRED SPACE AND MULTIPLE CROSS- CULTURAL REFERENCES WHICH FRAMPTON SEES NO PRECEDENT FOR IN WESTERN CULTURE, BUT RATHER IN THE CHINESE PAGODA ROOF.[WORLD CULTURE]. THE BUILDING FEELS CRITICALLY REGIONALIST AS THE OUTER CONCRETE FACADES TIES IN WITH THE OUTSIDE AS THE BUILDING WHCH HAS A MORE RUSTIC FEEL TO IT, HAVING A FEELING THAT IT IS ONE WITH THE GROUND WHICH MAKES IT FIT WITH THE
ACCORDING TO ALEXANDER TZONIS, CRITICAL REGIONALISM NEED NOT DIRECTLY DRAW FROM THE CONTEXT; RATHER ELEMENTS CAN BE STRIPPED OF CONTEXT BUT USED IN UNFAMILIAR WAYS. HIS AIM WAS TO MAKE IT EVIDENT THAT DISTRUPTION AND LOSS OF SPACE IS SEEN AS A REFLECTION AS WELL AS SELF EVALUATION. KENNETH FRAMPTON DIFFERED A BIT IN HIS EXPLAINATION OF THE TOPIC. IN HIS SEMINAL WRITINGS OF THE TOPIC CRITICAL REGIONALISM, TOWARDS A CRITICAL REGIONALISM: SIX POINTS FOR AN …show more content…
TWO EXAMPLES THAT FRAMPTON USED TO DISCUSS CRITICAL REGIONALISM WERE JORN UTZON AND ALVAR AALTO. UTZON’S BAGSVAERD CHURCH SHOWS THE SYNTHESIS BETWEEN CULTURE AND CIVILIZATION. THIS IS REVEALED BY THE RATIONAL, MODULAR, NEUTRAL AND ECONOMIC, PARTLY PREFABICATED CONCRETE OUTER SHELL [CIVILZATION] VERSUS THE VERY UNECONOMIC, ORGANIC INTERIOR CONCRETE SHELL SIGNIFYING ITS MANIPULATION OF LIGHT SACRED SPACE AND MULTIPLE CROSS- CULTURAL REFERENCES WHICH FRAMPTON SEES NO PRECEDENT FOR IN WESTERN CULTURE, BUT RATHER IN THE CHINESE PAGODA ROOF.[WORLD CULTURE]. THE BUILDING FEELS CRITICALLY REGIONALIST AS THE OUTER CONCRETE FACADES TIES IN WITH THE OUTSIDE AS THE BUILDING WHCH HAS A MORE RUSTIC FEEL TO IT, HAVING A FEELING THAT IT IS ONE WITH THE GROUND WHICH MAKES IT FIT WITH THE