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

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 regional...

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Published in:Architectural histories 2016-07, Vol.4 (1), p.np-np
Main Author: Giamarelos, Stylianos
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Antonakakis, Dimitris
Antonakakis, Suzana
Architects
Architectural history
Architecture
Authorship
critical regionalism, postmodern architecture, 1980 Venice Biennale of Architecture exhibition, Suzana & Dimitris Antonakakis, Kenneth Frampton, Alexander Tzonis & Liane Lefaivre
Criticism and interpretation
Dictators
Forecasts and trends
Frampton, Kenneth
Modern architecture
Modernism
Postmodernism
Regionalism
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Summary: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.
ISSN:2050-5833
2050-5833
DOI:10.5334/ah.192