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Transcultural Architecture - The Limits and Opportunities of Critical Regionalism (Paperback)
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Transcultural Architecture - The Limits and Opportunities of Critical Regionalism (Paperback)
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Critical Regionalism is a notion which gained popularity in
architectural debate as a synthesis of universal, 'modern' elements
and individualistic elements derived from local cultures. This book
shifts the focus from Critical Regionalism towards a broader
concept of 'Transcultural Architecture' and defines Critical
Regionalism as a subgroup of the latter. One of the benefits that
this change of perspective brings about is that a large part of the
political agenda of Critical Regionalism, which consists of
resisting attitudes forged by typically Western experiences, is
'softened' and negotiated according to premises provided by local
circumstances. A further benefit is that several responses
dependent on factors that initial definitions of Critical
Regionalism never took into account can now be considered. At the
book's centre is an analysis of Reima and Raili PietilA's Sief
Palace Area project in Kuwait. Further cases of modern architecture
in China, Korea, and Saudi Arabia show that the critique, which
holds that Critical Regionalism is a typical 'western' exercise, is
not sound in all circumstances. The book argues that there are
different Critical Regionalisms and not all of them impose Western
paradigms on non-Western cultures. Non-Western regionalists can
also successfully participate in the Western enlightened discourse,
even when they do not directly and consciously act against Western
models. Furthermore, the book proposes that a certain
'architectural rationality' can be contained in architecture itself
- not imposed by outside parameters like aesthetics, comfort, or
even tradition, but flowing out of a social game of which
architecture is a part. The key concept is that of the 'form of
life', as developed by Ludwig Wittgenstein, whose thoughts are here
linked to Critical Regionalism. Kenneth Frampton argues that
Critical Regionalism offers something well beyond comfort and
accommodation. What he has in mind are ethical prescripts closely
linked to a
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