3. Critical Regionalism and World Culture
The aforementioned holding position has a name, arriere-garde. It is situated equally between the 'Enlightenment myth of progress' and the reactionary return to vernacular forms. Frampton proposes that this arriere-garde position will generate a "resistant, identity-giving culture...having discreet recourse to universal technique." 9
Given a name the position is then strategized. Using Alex Tzonis and Liane Lefaivre "The Grid and the Pathway", we arrive at critical regionalism, a "bridge over which any humanistic architecture of the future must pass." 10 Critical regionalism will mediate the spectrum between universal civilization and the particularities of place. To maintain its critical edge one need be aware of the draw of Populism. This movement seeks to economically supplant reality with information, often in the form of imagery found in advertising. Critical regionalism, situated between and beholding, simply requests the recognition of both world culture and universal civilization. This recognition must mediate the world culture by 'deconstructing' the eclecticism of acquired alien forms and the universal civilization by limiting the economy of technological production.
The example of Jorn Utzon's Bagsvaerd Church near Copenhagen built in 1976 is used to illustrate the different aspects of universal civilization and world culture. The exterior in general is constructed following the universal technique while the interior, in general, expresses the secular or world culture of the region, which is not specified beyond Copenhagen. The exterior built of concrete blocks and precast concrete wall panels is set up on the repetitive rationality of a grid. This is an economic building technique found throughout the world and largely 'conditioned' by the industry, therefore universal in nature. The interior, a billowing concrete vault is far from economic with its idiosyncrasies.
Now this is where Frampton's essay breaks down. The idiosyncratic vault signifies sacred space, well maybe a particular space of importance but not necessarily sacred. Then he goes on about its referring to the only precedent for such a form in a sacred context, the pagoda roof! He continues that Utzon cites this in an essay. But the next part is a stretch. The vault does not exclusively signify an Asian reading therefore it is secular(worldly, not of the church.)Why is this so? Precluding the 'usual set of semantic religious references' does not by default, secularize. Is an Asian reading so foreign as to throw the whole mix out of the sacred? This secularization of the vault therefore renders it in a way particular to the region, right? Well he says that this is a secular age.
Where is he talking about? Copenhagen? If Copenhagen were particularly secular then this is a regional aspect, the vault referring to that, but also related to world culture in that it is desacralized. It is therefore not wholesale but critical regionalism the mediation of the sacred and the universal which is secular. In Copenhagen. This just isn't clearly stated in the text.
3. Critical Regionalism and World Culture
The aforementioned holding position has a name, arriere-garde. It is situated equally between the 'Enlightenment myth of progress' and the reactionary return to vernacular forms. Frampton proposes that this arriere-garde position will generate a "resistant, identity-giving culture...having discreet recourse to universal technique." 9
Given a name the position is then strategized. Using Alex Tzonis and Liane Lefaivre "The Grid and the Pathway", we arrive at critical regionalism, a "bridge over which any humanistic architecture of the future must pass." 10 Critical regionalism will mediate the spectrum between universal civilization and the particularities of place. To maintain its critical edge one need be aware of the draw of Populism. This movement seeks to economically supplant reality with information, often in the form of imagery found in advertising. Critical regionalism, situated between and beholding, simply requests the recognition of both world culture and universal civilization. This recognition must mediate the world culture by 'deconstructing' the eclecticism of acquired alien forms and the universal civilization by limiting the economy of technological production.
The example of Jorn Utzon's Bagsvaerd Church near Copenhagen built in 1976 is used to illustrate the different aspects of universal civilization and world culture. The exterior in general is constructed following the universal technique while the interior, in general, expresses the secular or world culture of the region, which is not specified beyond Copenhagen. The exterior built of concrete blocks and precast concrete wall panels is set up on the repetitive rationality of a grid. This is an economic building technique found throughout the world and largely 'conditioned' by the industry, therefore universal in nature. The interior, a billowing concrete vault is far from economic with its idiosyncrasies.
Now this is where Frampton's essay breaks down. The idiosyncratic vault signifies sacred space, well maybe a particular space of importance but not necessarily sacred. Then he goes on about its referring to the only precedent for such a form in a sacred context, the pagoda roof! He continues that Utzon cites this in an essay. But the next part is a stretch. The vault does not exclusively signify an Asian reading therefore it is secular(worldly, not of the church.)Why is this so? Precluding the 'usual set of semantic religious references' does not by default, secularize. Is an Asian reading so foreign as to throw the whole mix out of the sacred? This secularization of the vault therefore renders it in a way particular to the region, right? Well he says that this is a secular age.
Where is he talking about? Copenhagen? If Copenhagen were particularly secular then this is a regional aspect, the vault referring to that, but also related to world culture in that it is desacralized. It is therefore not wholesale but critical regionalism the mediation of the sacred and the universal which is secular. In Copenhagen. This just isn't clearly stated in the text.
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