Critical Regionalism In The Early 20th Century

CRITICAL REGIONALISM

The early 20th century came in the movement of modernism which spoke about rationality, logic, efficiency and minimalism. When also slogans like “less is more” and “form follows function” came in. architecture took a turn where ornamentation was suddenly considered as wasteful and the building style became very flat, building with sharp edges and clean facades. This eventually became the international style, because it had become very comprehensive. Slowly modernism was settled and had its roots growing towards the mainstream of international style, people realized that this style is boring. This was when the new idea started coming into the mainstream which had the capability of removing the boringness and restore interest

The concept of the term was to deal with a current problem: the need to have a role for buildings, where they stand surrounded by a huge world looked up by the media and globalization. The idea of making the designers understand to overcome imported material and initialize the use of local and regionally suitable material and construction methods. Practice that reflects a positive behaviour of the region to the structure situated in that particular region. Another British architect named Kenneth Frampton regarded as one of the world 's leading architecture historians of modernist architecture wrote an essay “Towards a Critical Regionalism: six points for an architecture of resistance”, where Frampton recalls Paul Ricoeur 's "how to become modern and to return to sources; how to revive an old, dormant civilization and take part in universal civilization". According to Frampton 's proposal, critical regionalism should adopt modern architecture, critically, for its universal progressive qualities but at the same time value should be placed on the geographical context of the building” . Keeping in mind the knowledge of how a structure not being a entity but a symbol of creation of ideas, new method of articulation, methods of construction is how critical regionalism

A building with a its entrance through grass amphitheatre and as you enter the building which is lower to the ground level looks small as you enter with rectangular columns and staircases all plastered in cement. Sangath is a demonstration of Doshi’s ideal of a “new Indian architecture”. The exterior is a rough paradisiacal garden, while the interior affords a shaded retreat. Details such as the sluices, the rounded edges of the china clad roofs or the scrapped concrete rhyme with the pots and terracotta figures around the site. Such an exploration of material which is local and very economically affordable is where it relates to the region and is more likely to have the sence of how the structure will behave to the conditions of the region. The rooms inside are spacious and the vaults above are a good source of light and air ventilation. The understanding of utilization of space is well understood in this structure, the methods used to construct such a structure opened new possibilities to the way of making an eco-friendly and a well sustaining