Prospects for a Critical Regionalism

Locative Media Interventionism – A Conceptual Framework for Critical Review of Augmented Reality Applications in the Participatory Spatial Design Context

“…Langdon, Clarkson, Robinson, Lazar, & Heylighen, 2012), is in turn fuelled by the demand for socially inclusive built environment that numerous authors have been advocating for in various segments of published discourse, including critical regionalism, vernacular architecture, indigenous architecture, environment behaviour studies, and socially responsive approaches to architecture and planning (e.g. Birkeland, 2012;Carmona, Heath, Oc, & Tiesdell, 2010;Corburn & Bhatia, 2007;Correa, 2010;Earley, 1977;Evans, 2003;Frampton, 1985;Hillier & Hanson, 1989;Jackson, 2003;Memmott & Davidson, 2006;Oliver, 2006;Renalds, Smith, & Hale, 2010;Schulz & Northridge, 2004).…”

A Reading of Interpretative Models of Minimalism in Architecture

“…It is interesting that minimalist works of many aforementioned architects already existed, before declaration of minimalism, though as a part of architectural historiography in some other sense. For instance, Frampton (1983) already spoke about Kahn, Barragan, Snozzi, Ando, Gregotti, Ungers and Siza in terms of critical regionalism, while Jencks (1987) studies Ungers within postmodern fundamentalists. Symptomatic was the appropriation of architects under the auspices of minimalist discourse with the purpose of theoretical establishment of a new topic (2).…”

The Architectural Expression of Space and Form Created by the Light in the Works of Alvaro Siza

“…Frampton, Kenneth [2], for example, referred to his architecture as a form of critical regionalism while emphasizing the use of structure, material and light that blends into the region. In the meantime, Curtis William J. R. [3] described the architecture of Siza as a sculpture in which the city and the landscape are blended with each other.…”