Critical Regionalism website goes live
15 February 2011
Image courtesy of Neil Campbell
A new interactive website & blog on Expanded Critical Regionalism
Developed by Neil Campbell, this website aims to open-up, rhizomatically, the concept of Critical Regionalism, exploring its meanings and possible applications. The rhizomatic nature of the site is to allow for a productive and fluid movement of ideas and connections - following the spirit of Deleuze and Guattari's work. As the majority of studies in this field do, it will begin with an examination of the architectural discourses from which the term derives: Anthony Alofsin, Liane Lefaivre and Alexander Tzonis (1981), and most obviously, with Kenneth Frampton's influential essay 'Towards a Critical Regionalism: Six Points for an Architecture of Resistance' (1983). The aim here is to facilitate the development of an expanded / reframed / deterritorialized critical regionalism building upon contemporary work in the field (cf. Herr (1996), Reichert-Powell (2007), Comer, Campbell (2008), Hunt (2009)). The site aims to point in many directions at once; by looking not only at these contemporary accounts of the methodology but also at those which inform Frampton's original essay. The reframed regionalism we intend to extend here is an international, living mix of voices, uncontained, problematic, contradictory - a series of 'border discourses' that, articulates region as it 'works' inward and outward.
www.critical-regionalism.com