Intersecting Itineraries Beyond the Strada Novissima: The Converging Authorship of Critical Regionalism

Author(s):	Stylianos Giamarelos
Medium:	journal article
Language(s):	English
Published in:	Architectural Histories, 2016, n. 1, v. 4
DOI:	10.5334/ah.192
Abstract:	While the 1980 Venice Biennale is usually understood as the exhibition that crystallised postmodernism as a style of historicist eclecticism, the event also acted as a catalyst for the eventual convergence of alternative architectural sensibilities and ideas. This article shows how critical regionalism emerged when the physical and intellectual trajectories of British historian Kenneth Frampton and the Greek architects Suzana Antonakaki and Dimitris Antonakakis intersected in the aftermath of the Biennale. Offering an alternative way out of the contemporaneous crisis of modernism, this open-ended and extrovert regionalism that opposed static cultural insularities is thus the discursive footprint of architectural sensibilities travelling through cultures.
Copyright:	© 2016 The Authors.
License:	This creative work has been published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY 4.0) license which allows copying, and redistribution as well as adaptation of the original work provided appropriate credit is given to the original author and the conditions of the license are met.

Advertisement

Structurae cooperates with

Advertisement