With its search for purity, honesty, modesty, and "fitness of
purpose," the late nineteenth and early twentieth century concept
of architectural regionalism is seminal to the modern movement. In
later historiography, however, regionalism in Europe was neglected
and even labeled backward. The origins of this drastic change of
perception can be traced to the 1930s, when regionalism as a
positive form gradually turned into a closed form of regionalism, a
folding back on one's own region as a defense mechanism in an
economically and politically turbulent decade.
In this book, internationally-renowned researchers investigate
the complex and shifting relation between regionalism and modernity
in the architecture of Western Europe between the two World Wars,
with a focus on Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, and Great Britain.
They demonstrate that regionalism cannot be separated from
modernity, but is in fact a way of dealing with modernity and its
contradictions. Applied to architecture, regionalism is a means to
moderate modernism, to embed the design in its local surroundings.
It is seen as a result of the search for identity in a modernizing
and globalizing world where tensions arise between diversity and
superiority and among science, aesthetics, and ideology. The
employment of regional forms and concepts is then used as an
adaptation strategy, a way to facilitate modernity. Rather than
rejecting regionalism as an anti-modern phenomenon, this book's
contributors show that we should interpret regionalism as a
striving for continuity within modernity.
Contributors: Herve Doucet, University of Strasbourg; Kai
Krauskopf, Technische Universitat Dresden; Leen Meganck, Flanders
Heritage Agency; Benoit Mihail, Police Museum Brussels; Lut
Missinne, Westfalische Wilhelms-Universitat Munster; Bjorn Rzoska,
Groen; Michelangelo Sabatino, University of Houston; Vanessa Vanden
Berghe, University of East London; Johan Van den Mooter, Kempens
Landschap; Evert Vandeweghe, Ghent University; Jean-Claude Vigato,
Ecole nationale superieure d'architecture de Nancy"
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