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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| description | 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. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-318edf42a9ca4e7a86bee87e1810ad0e2022-12-22T03:28:49ZengOpen Library of HumanitiesArchitectural Histories2050-58332016-07-014110.5334/ah.19299Intersecting Itineraries Beyond the Strada Novissima: The Converging Authorship of Critical RegionalismStylianos Giamarelos0The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College LondonWhile 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.http://journal.eahn.org/articles/192critical regionalism, postmodern architecture, 1980 Venice Biennale of Architecture exhibition, Suzana & Dimitris Antonakakis, Kenneth Frampton, Alexander Tzonis & Liane Lefaivre |
| spellingShingle | Stylianos Giamarelos Intersecting Itineraries Beyond the Strada Novissima: The Converging Authorship of Critical Regionalism Architectural Histories critical regionalism, postmodern architecture, 1980 Venice Biennale of Architecture exhibition, Suzana & Dimitris Antonakakis, Kenneth Frampton, Alexander Tzonis & Liane Lefaivre |
| title | Intersecting Itineraries Beyond the Strada Novissima: The Converging Authorship of Critical Regionalism |
| title_full | Intersecting Itineraries Beyond the Strada Novissima: The Converging Authorship of Critical Regionalism |
| title_fullStr | Intersecting Itineraries Beyond the Strada Novissima: The Converging Authorship of Critical Regionalism |
| title_full_unstemmed | Intersecting Itineraries Beyond the Strada Novissima: The Converging Authorship of Critical Regionalism |
| title_short | Intersecting Itineraries Beyond the Strada Novissima: The Converging Authorship of Critical Regionalism |
| title_sort | intersecting itineraries beyond the strada novissima the converging authorship of critical regionalism |
| topic | critical regionalism, postmodern architecture, 1980 Venice Biennale of Architecture exhibition, Suzana & Dimitris Antonakakis, Kenneth Frampton, Alexander Tzonis & Liane Lefaivre |
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