Critical Regionalism Basics
These are the two theorists that first coined the term Critical Regionalism?
Who are Alexander Tzonis and Liane Lefaivre
What is the specificities of culture, place, tectonics, and tactile experience, otherwise the built environment will only consist of functional entities.
This local material was used primarily by Tümertekin to design the B2 and SM houses.
What is stone?
In the B2 and SM houses the poetics of architecture are realized through natural light in these ways
What is through handling natural light in an elegant and controlled way?
This is what "defamiliarization" means in Critical Regionalism.
What is presenting familiar elements in an unfamiliar way to enhance their perception?
These two methods can be used to criticize regionalism.
What is investigation whether the regionalism tradition is legitimate and the method of defamiliarization?
Which sense is central to the concept of tactility in architecture?
The sense of touch
This is how the B2 house reflects its place in Büyükhüsun Village.
What is the use of stone, a material commonly found in the village, and by framing views of the Aegean Sea
These poetic quality is achieved in the SM house’s pergola design
What is the play of light and shadow through a wire mesh filled with stones?
This method highlights the valuable characteristics of an environment that often goes unnoticed in daily life by using familiar in an unfamiliar way.
What is defamiliarization and estrangment
This was discussed in three of the six resistance points.
What is concept of culture?
This is the reason that the village and the SM House have different experiences
What is the significant difference is the street of the village is a public scape while it becomes a private space at the SM House
This architectural feature of the SM house separates the private space from the public village streets while still reflecting the local craftsmanship and materiality of Büyükhüsun Village.
What is the stone retaining wall?
Tümertekin use the gap between walls and floors in the B2 house to enhance the tectonic experience in this way
By using it for electrical installations, creating a seamless and functional architectural detail
Tumertekin uses stone to gain a different meaning which creates this feeling.
what is while one walks in the streets of the village through the familiar stone walls, all of a sudden a different stone texture is encountered. This discrepancy leads to momentary hesitations, going beyond the ordinary?
These are potential tensions between dichotomies in a critical approach.
What is traditional and contemporary, old and new, universal and regional, natural and artificial, visual and tactile, myth and reality, and modern and post modern
What is such an approach allows individuals to have unique experience of their own, which makes tactility an important point to understand the built environment as well as buildings themselves.
This concept in Critical Regionalism describes the relationship between buildings and their location, focusing on how they interact with their specific surroundings.
What is place and context?
The poetic similarities of the B2 and SM houses in their assembly
What is the B2 House, the meeting of concrete surfaces with stone, together with the warmth and rurality of the reeds and in the SM House, the stone walls filling the gaps in between the steel structures not in a customary way but in a tectonic proficiency?
Architects Tzonis and Lefaivre criticize regionalism in two ways
What is the first is to investigate whether the regionalist tradition is legitimate, and the second is to use the method of defamiliarization?
These concepts transform the duality of universal and local in architecture.
What is Location, context, culture, and time?
Tumertekin does what during construction that are realities of the site and relevant to tactility
What is usage of physical and perceptional elements of the site and local settlement. What are topography, view, local materials, light and climate
Which philosopher's idea of "belonging" influenced Frampton's concept of place? (Extra point if you get the first name)
Martin Heidegger
The poetic effect of architecture lies in the
art of construction.
This architectural element in the SM house demonstrates defamiliarization by transforming from a vertical to a horizontal use
What is the stone that moves from wall to roof?