Pad (Jun 2019)
Mediterranean Critical Regionalism. A Methodological Concept Linked to the Southern Space Designs of Post-War II
Abstract
During the Spanish post-war period, an adaptation of the design processes of the Milanese architectural imaginary is carried out by a group of architects related to the Group R founded by Coderch. In this context, some vicissitudes are detected of a critical regionalist positioning that the architect and critic Kenneth Frampton theorizes during the eighties and who conceives as an attitude. It is applicable to any interstice that belongs to a decentralized context and therefore can be treated as generic. As in the case of Milan and Barcelona, the critical regionalism refers to those Post-World War II architectures that take their traditional vernacular tradition as a model and reinterpret it to adapt it to the current reality and to the progressive criteria of the architectural modernity, fleeing from all folkloric connotation, but also from the lack of humanity of the International Style. The architecture of the Modern Movement is understood as a decisive episode in the modern history of culture. It is conceived as an active way of opposing Fran- coist eclecticism while seeing a synthetic system capable of explaining the most varied programs from visual criteria that express singularity and identity through architecture and its historical continuity with its own past.
