Movement
Critical Regionalism
Explore in the Atlas →An architecture of resistance mediating between global modernity and local culture, climate and place to foster identity.
Dwelling Settlement Tectonics Climate Country
Details
- Origin
- United States
Classifications
- Holder
- Individual
- Source of authority
- Lived experienceReason
- Subject
- Human centred
- Political position
- Subaltern resistant
- Degree of codification
- Pattern based
- Mode of transmission
- Text drawing
- Knowledge type
- Relational embodied
- Epistemic cluster
- Western philosophical
Connections
- reacted against Climatic / Environmental Modernism
- extends Architectural Phenomenology
Referenced by
- Kenneth Frampton associated with
- Towards a Critical Regionalism: Six Points for an Architecture of Resistance exemplifies
- Sri Lankan Parliament Building exemplifies
- Bait Ur Rouf Mosque exemplifies
- Aranya Low-Cost Housing exemplifies
- Sangath Architect's Studio exemplifies
- Luis Barragán House and Studio exemplifies
- Hassan Fathy associated with
- Placing Resistance: A Critique of Critical Regionalism critiqued
Sources
- MIT Press. n.d.. https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262561495/studies-in-tectonic-culture/.
- Frampton, Kenneth. “Towards a Critical Regionalism: Six Points for an Architecture of Resistance.” Bay Press, 1983.
- Tzonis, Alexander and Lefaivre, Liane. The Grid and the Pathway: An Introduction to the Work of Dimitris and Susana Antonakakis. 1981.
Cite this entry
First published May 2026Last revised Jul 2026
CLAD. "Critical Regionalism." Atlas of Architectural Thought. CLAD, 2026. https://www.cl-ad.com.au/research/atlas/movement/critical-regionalism/. Accessed July 17, 2026.