Roots of Critical Regionalism
Carlson-Reddig’s self-proclaimed purpose of the reading
To employ Frampton’s provocative framework as a field for further musing and as a sieve for with which to filter the ideas of others
The primary reasons for Frampton’s concern with the surging substitution of information for experience
The “irreality” of scenographic representations as proxy for materially substantive architecture, the substitution of mediating imagery for corporeal human experience, and the din of competing voices in the critical debates of the Post-Modern era
The author and Frampton criticize the unabated leveling and stripping of this
What movie was referenced when talking about mimicry and blending into the surroundings. Why was it relevant
What is agoraphobia
Fear of places and situations that might cause panic, helplessness, or embarrassment.
This style of architecture was viewed as a resistance to dominant Post-modern architecture of the late 20th century, but its demand deteriorated as post-modern faded into irrelevance
Arriere-garde architecture, which translates to “out-of-date”
Ada Louise Huxtable’s commentary on the rise of material superficiality and architecture’s lost potential
Sidelined, trivialized, reduced to a decorative art or a developer’s gimmick, characterized by a pastiche of borrowed styles and shaky, subjective references, it is increasingly detached from the problems and processes through which contemporary life and creative necessity are actively engaged. This is a dubious replacement for the rigorous and elegant synthesis of structure, art, utility, and symbolism that has always defined and enriched the building art and made it central to any civilized society.
The suburban counterpart to agoraphobia must be characterized by these psychological conditions
confusion, fatigue, spatial hopelessness, and generalized anxiety at the feeling of being lost.
Critical regionalism demands a reflection on what?
difference between blended mimicry and defamiliarized transformation, hybridizing the local through the influence of universal technology
Architecture (in the context of being its own subject or a sub-category)
Architecture is not about other things—it is neither secondary nor mediatory as a vehicle to address other subject matter. It is complete—it is its own subject
The origin of critical regionalism can be most attributed to what essays by these authors
Tzonis & Lefaire, “the Grid and the Pathway,” and Frampton, “Six Points for an Architecture of Resistance” and “Ten Points on an Architecture of Regionalism: A Provisional Polemic”
The particular traits that makes vernacular architecture attractive today, and the anthesis to superficial architecture
The idea of authentic consistency between appearance, form, purpose and materiality; harmonious consinitas of substance and image
What must be one of the main tasks of critical regionalism? Why
Recovering distinguishability—Frampton’s “place-form”
How does Frampton describe architectonics
Frampton nominates architectonics as a primary mode and characteristic of architecture that resonates with his plea for “experience” and the real.
What is scenography in architecture
a spatial art where various artistic disciplines combine in order to create fictitious and otherworldly spaces.
Q: The chief principles and details of Kenneth Frampton’s “Ten Points on an Architecture…” essay are analyzed in this way through the reading
Recounted and recontextualized in light of current circumstances; derived from the related architectural scholarship of others and appended to the points for further contemplation
How the mounting interconnection of media and technology in our lives has blurred the lines of authenticity
Space and distance collapse as watch live streaming of wars, and view images of distant planets and cosmic events. Our sense of connection and proximity to places and people, and our perception of realness are inexorably altered. As we are more connected by media to a much wider world, the quieter realness of the “present” and immediate world can be forgotten, and overlooked
What are the needs for experience architecture psychologically according to Norberg- Schulz. What do they mean?
Orientation and Identification
What does Auer consider the “first nature” of a material
a material is its least-processed form, stacked or jointed, but worked very little to achieve a relatively primitive end.
What is “Realness”/ integrity
“That is the pleasure of the building: to feel, somehow, in the process of making—even in the roughest way of solving problems—that the entire conception of the world is implicit. To experience and understand a building is to realize the continuity it proposes between an idea of the world and the construction itself. It speaks of the builder’s understanding of the world—the way in which he wanted to understand the world. This communication allows us to appreciate the values and judgments of those who caused it to be built.”
The differences between the opening and closing points of Kenneth Frampton’s Critical Regionalism essays
Articulating the fundamental challenge of negotiating local and global circumstances in architectural practice vs. examining a pairing of of dichotomous architectural practices; one that embodies the humane, place-specific traits of architecture and another that illustrates its less, critical and regional counterpart
The impact of the virtual realm on materiality and experience in both media and culture
Instead of replacing the physical world of materials, the virtual world produces a renewed desire for “realness” in materials. The desire for a new “materiality”, for tactility and texture in consumer culture, is manifested in everything from fashion to furniture...Through the production of ever more numerous representations of materials, our culture’s desires for materiality serve to distance us from those qualities that are “truly” material or unique only to the physical experience of materials.
What are the 4 different ways that man-made places can be related to nature and the genius loci of the site
Visualizing, complementing, symbolizing, gathering
The author describes an example material that newer technology has pushed past hybridization to a point where its original qualities and characteristics have been lost. What is one of those materials
Thin Brick
Buffalo Bill