Resisting Postmodern Architecture
Critical regionalism before globalisation
Stylianos Giamarelos
'Giamarelos reflects upon why Frampton’s critical regionalism continues to endure, particularly as a template for an engaged practice on the part of architects around the world today. He points to aspects of Frampton’s ideas, such as a respect for nature, local landscapes and site conditions, which easily segue to the pressing contemporary concerns regarding sustainability and climate change. For these reasons, Resisting Postmodern Architecture is a worthy, relevant and innovative work of scholarship.'
Mary Pepchinski
Stylianos Giamarelos is Lecturer in Architecture at The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL.
List of figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Four decades
- Globalisations
- Postmodern architectures
- Revisionist histories
- Postmodern architecture in Greece
- Forty years of critical regionalism
- Globalising branches
- Cross-cultural roots
Part I: Globalising branches
1. Postmodern stage
- Greek architects in Venice
- Postmodern architecture before the Biennale
- Stern’s dominance
- The historiographical mark of the Biennale
- Provincialising postmodern architecture
2. Polyglot histories
- Shared political outlook
- Joint writing project
- Constructive regionalism
- The co-authored question of regionalism
- Mumford’s significance
- The multilingual history of critical regionalism
3. Authorial agents
- Frampton’s regionalism
- Tzonis and Lefaivre’s critical regionalism
- The Antonakakis’ architecture of critical regionalism
4. Media problem
- Postmodern regionalism
- Battle of the publishers
- Critical regionalism as a media construct
5. Lost books
- Frampton’s book project
- Regionalisms of cross-cultural exchange
- Critical regionalism as collective culture
- Cross-cultural roots and globalising branches
Part II: Cross-cultural roots
6. Celebrated reception
- The geopolitical foundation of the Classical centre
- The Classical centre of art and architecture
- The marginalisation of modern architecture
- National(ist) historiography
- Critical regionalism in history
- An Englishman in Athens
- Frampton’s Greece
7. Inadvertent repercussions
- Inward-looking repercussions
- Boomerang effect
- An imploding collective
8. Cross-cultural genealogy
- Pikionis’s grid under the pathway
- Regional modernist teachings
- Corbu and Mies in Greece
- Cross-cultural regionalism
9. Athenian resistance
- Resistant architecture
- Resistant mode of production
- Resistant aesthetics
- Residual hierarchies
- Retheorising resistance
10. Postmodern stigma
- Directing the grid
- Transforming Athenian modernism
- Turning postmodern
- Short-circuited discourses
Epilogue: Three fronts
- Three Worlds of the 1980s
- Three globalisations of the 1990s
- Three colonisations of the 2000s
- Three returns of the 1960s
- Three challenges of the 2010s
Bibliography
Index
Format: Paperback
Size: 234 × 156 mm
438 Pages
116 colour illustrations
Copyright: © 2022
ISBN: 9781800081345
Publication: January 10, 2022
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