Mediterranean Critical Regionalism

Mediterranean Critical Regionalism

Comas, Sara Coscarelli

Poster:

The study of Barcelona’s architectural context, that adopts its modus operandi from the Milanese’s architectural imaginary1, between 1949 and 1964, is substantially characterized by the desire to recoverthe lost history - lost with the Franco’s dictatorship -, the connection of the individual with its innermost self and the consciousness of belonging to the Mediterranean context, without forgetting, however, the progressive and emancipative tenets of the Modern Movement. The vicissitudes of adaptation carried out by Catalan architects, especially Group R, while admiring their Milanese counterparts Ernesto Nathan Rogers, Ignazio Gardella and Franco Albini, among others, always around the contents of the magazine Casabella- Continuità, leads to the expression of a genre that is specific to this region: Mediterranean Critical Regionalism, as an assimilation from the Kenneth Frampton’s Critical Regionalism.

The study of Barcelona’s architectural context, that adopts its modus operandi from the Milanese’s architectural imaginary1, between 1949 and 1964, is substantially characterized by the desire to recoverthe lost history - lost with the Franco’s dictatorship -, the connection of the individual with its innermost self and the consciousness of belonging to the Mediterranean context, without forgetting, however, the progressive and emancipative tenets of the Modern Movement. The vicissitudes of adaptation carried out by Catalan architects, especially Group R, while admiring their Milanese counterparts Ernesto Nathan Rogers, Ignazio Gardella and Franco Albini, among others, always around the contents of the magazine Casabella- Continuità, leads to the expression of a genre that is specific to this region: Mediterranean Critical Regionalism, as an assimilation from the Kenneth Frampton’s Critical Regionalism.

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DOI: 10.5151/despro-icdhs2014-0120

Referências bibliográficas

• [1] TORRES, J., Italia y Catalunya. Relaciones e influencias en la arquitectura, 1945-1968. Valencia: ETSAV 1991.
• [2] FRAMPTON, K., (1980) Modern Architecture: A Critical History (World of Art). London: Thames Andamp; Hudson 2007 (4a ed.).
• [3] ROGERS, E. N., “Le preesistenze ambientali e i temi pratici contemporanei”. In Casabella-Continuità, 204, Milan: February 1955.
• [4] ROGERS, E. N., “Una casa a ciascuno”. A Il Politecnico. Settimanale di cultura contemporanea, 420, Milan: October 1945.
• [5] ROGERS, E. N., “Continuità o crisi?”. In Casabella-Continuità, 215, Milan: April 1957.

Como citar:

Comas, Sara Coscarelli; "Mediterranean Critical Regionalism", p-40-41. In: Tradition, Transition, Tragectories: major or minor influences? [=ICDHS 2014 - 9th Conference of the International Committee for Design History and Design Studies]. São Paulo: Blucher, 2014.
ISSN 23186968, DOI 10.5151/despro-icdhs2014-0120