ArchitecturalRegionalismCollected Writingson Place, Identity,Modernity, andTraditionVincent B. Canizaro, editor

Princeton Architectural Press

New York

CONTENTS

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Preface: The Promise of Regionalism

Acknowledgments

Introduction

CHAPTER 1: IDEAS IN REGIONALISM

The Regional Motive

Wendell Berry

Universal Civilization and National Cultures

Paul Ricoeur

CHAPTER 2: CRITICAL POSITIONS IN ARCHITECTURAL REGIONALISM

Positions in Architectural Regionalism

56 Regionalism and Nationalism in Architecture

Harwell Hamilton Harris

66 Regionalism

Harwell Hamilton Harris

70 Regionalism and Invention

Lawrence W. Speck

Critical-Historical Studies in Architectural Regionalism

80 Regionalism in American Architecture

Rexford Newcomb

96 Excerpts from The South in Architecture

Lewis Mumford

Regionalism under Rapid Modernization

102 Regionalism within Modernism

Suha Ozkan

110 Cultural Continuum and Regional Identity in Architecture

Balkrishna V. Doshi

120 Regionalism: Lessons from Algeria and the Middle East

Kenza Boussora

Postmodern Regionalism: Alienation, Histohcism, and Analysis

128 Tradition and Modernity: The Feasibility of Regional Architecture

in Post-Modern Society

Juhani Pallasmaa

140 Critique of Regionalism

Alan Colquhoun

146 The Concept of Regionalism

Alan Colquhoun

156 Four Approaches to Regionalism in Architecture

Eleftherios Pavlides

CHAPTER 3: MODERN REGIONALISM: REFERENTIAL REGIONALISM

170 Toward a Southwestern Architecture

David R. Williams

178 Excerpts from Manual for Drivers and Guides Descriptive of the

Indian Watchtower at Desert View and its Relation,

Architecturally, to the Prehistoric Ruins of the Southwest

Mary Colter

188 Old Forms for New Buildings

John Gaw Meem

194 The Myth and Power of Place: Hispanic Revivalism in the

American Southwest

David Gebhard

204 Regionalism and Texas Architecture

Stephen Fox

214 Neff and Neutra: Regionalism versus Internationalism

James F. O'Gorman

CHAPTER 4: REGIONALISM AND REGIONAL PLANNING

224 An Appalachian Trail: A Project in Regional Planning

Benton MacKaye

236 Regional Planning

Lewis Mumford

244 Excerpts from A Pattern Language

Christopher Alexander

252 Regional Development: The Architect's Role

Albert Mayer

258 Perspectives on Regional Design

Paul D. Spreiregen

CHAPTER 5: REGIONAL MODERNISM: CONFLICT AND MATURATION

270 Excerpts from Precisions: On the Present State of Architecture

and City Planning

Le Corbusier

276 Regionalism in Architecture

Richard J. Neutra

280 After the International Style-What?

Hugh S. Morrison

288 The Sky Line: Status Quo

Lewis Mumford

292 What is Happening to Modern Architecture?

Museum of Modern Art

310 The New Regionalism

Sigfried Giedion

320 The Meaning of Regionalism in Architecture

Pietro Belluschi

326 Regionalism and Modern Architecture

James Stirling

CHAPTER 6: BIOREGIONALISM

334 Reinhabiting California

Peter Berg and Raymond Dasmann

340 Living by Life: Some Bioregional Theory and Practice

Jim Dodge

350 Biotechnology and Regional Integration

Gary J. Coates

|. 362 Desert Bloom

I Michael Haslam

i.t CHAPTER 7: CRITICAL REGIONALISM

368 Constructive Regionalism

Anthony Alofsin

374 Ten Points on an Architecture of Regionalism:

A Provisional Polemic

Kenneth Frampton

386 Critical Regionalism in Houston: A Case for the Menil Collection

Richard Ingersoll

394 Placing Resistance: A Critique of Critical Regionalism

Keith L Eggener

CHAPTER 8: REGIONALISMS FOR THE THIRD MILLENNIUM

410 Becoming Regional over Time: Toward a Reflexive Regionalism

Timothy Cassidy

420 On Performative Regionalism

Barbara L Allen

428 Strong Margins

Sarah Wigglesworth and Jeremy Till

432 Technology, Place, and Nonmodern Regionalism

Steven A. Moore

446 Notes

456 Selected Bibliography

460 Illustration Credits

461 Index