Theory
Critical Regionalism
Explore in the Atlas →Frampton's programme for a tectonic, place-sensitive resistance to placeless universal modernism.
Tectonics Country Meaning
Details
- Introduced
- 1983
Classifications
- Holder
- Individual
- Source of authority
- Lived experience
- Subject
- Human centred
- Political position
- Subaltern resistant
- Mode of transmission
- Text drawing
- Knowledge type
- Relational embodied
- Epistemic cluster
- Western philosophical
Referenced by
- Kenneth Frampton proposed
- Studies in Tectonic Culture articulates
- Hassan Fathy exemplifies
- Placing Resistance: A Critique of Critical Regionalism articulates
- Architecture for the Poor: An Experiment in Rural Egypt articulates
- Placing Resistance: A Critique of Critical Regionalism critiqued
- Global-turn historiography reacted against
- Kenneth Frampton developed
- Kenneth Frampton extends
Sources
- MIT Press, Studies in Tectonic Culture. 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.
- Frampton, Kenneth. Prospects for a Critical Regionalism. 1983.
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/theory/critical-regionalism/. Accessed July 17, 2026.