75 Regionalism
The design features that are particular to a culture’s tradition and history.
Regionalism is the close examination of history and progress through the lens of a designer’s immediate geographic, cultural, and social context. It has a complex and contentious history within the design profession, as it has been perceived as an attempt to move away from a design culture that emphasizes innovation and progress.
The main theory of a regionalist approach came as a response to both the perceived monolithic aesthetics of the modern movement and the subsequent shift to historical reference in the postmodern period. The architectural historian Kenneth Frampton posited a theory toward a critical ...
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