ARCH 214bg Lecture 12: CRITICAL REGIONALISM ARCHITECTURE Lecture 12
Document Summary
Situation in the world: globalization, leveling of playing field in the world, social media, but here is an alternate world: Controversial book: the future is going to be determined by identity/groups. Globalization represents a threat to the identity/self in the world. 1976 said said that cultures can only teach their own cultures? i. e. if you"re not from europe, you can"t teach about european architecture. Hassan fathy, the story of identity, how one man/architect tried to express his identity in architectural terms. Many nations today, like china, are struggling in architecture. He was saying critical regionalism is an attempt to identity in modernism. His professional life was how to express egyptian identity and arab/muslim architecture without any relation to the west. He wrote architecture for the poor and natural energy and vernacular architecture. It"s a personal journey of discovery, disappointment etc. Hassan fathy mother was turkish, father was egyptian. He was educated in french and british schools in egypt.
