Jorge Otero-Pailos
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816666034
- eISBN:
- 9781452948386
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816666034.003.0005
- Subject:
- Architecture, Architectural History
This chapter focuses on Kenneth Frampton, who believed that making buildings where people could pursue aesthetic experiences was an ethical commitment dependent on, and appropriate to, progressive ...
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This chapter focuses on Kenneth Frampton, who believed that making buildings where people could pursue aesthetic experiences was an ethical commitment dependent on, and appropriate to, progressive social politics. Despite his enormous influence in architectural culture around the world, the experiential core of Frampton’s theory of critical regionalism remains unexamined. A deep comprehension of how Frampton understood aesthetic experience is needed so as not to minimize its political thrust and import in architecture.Less
This chapter focuses on Kenneth Frampton, who believed that making buildings where people could pursue aesthetic experiences was an ethical commitment dependent on, and appropriate to, progressive social politics. Despite his enormous influence in architectural culture around the world, the experiential core of Frampton’s theory of critical regionalism remains unexamined. A deep comprehension of how Frampton understood aesthetic experience is needed so as not to minimize its political thrust and import in architecture.
Jorge Otero-Pailos
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816666034
- eISBN:
- 9781452948386
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816666034.001.0001
- Subject:
- Architecture, Architectural History
Architecture’s Historical Turn traces the hidden history of architectural phenomenology, a movement that reflected a key turning point in the early phases of postmodernism and a legitimating source ...
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Architecture’s Historical Turn traces the hidden history of architectural phenomenology, a movement that reflected a key turning point in the early phases of postmodernism and a legitimating source for those architects who first dared to confront history as an intellectual problem and not merely as a stylistic question. This book shows how architectural phenomenology radically transformed how architects engaged, theorized, and produced history. The book discusses the contributions of leading members, including Jean Labatut, Charles Moore, Christian Norberg-Schulz, and Kenneth Frampton. For architects maturing after World War II, the book contends, architectural history was a problem rather than a given. Paradoxically, their awareness of modernism’s historicity led some of them to search for an ahistorical experiential constant that might underpin all architectural expression. They drew from phenomenology, exploring the work of Bachelard, Merleau-Ponty, Heidegger, and Ricoeur, which they translated for architectural audiences. Initially, the concept that experience could be a timeless architectural language provided a unifying intellectual basis for the stylistic pluralism that characterized postmodernism. It helped give theory—especially the theory of architectural history—a new importance over practice. However, as this text makes clear, architectural phenomenologists could not accept the idea of theory as an end in itself. In the mid-1980s they were caught in the contradictory and untenable position of having to formulate their own demotion of theory.Less
Architecture’s Historical Turn traces the hidden history of architectural phenomenology, a movement that reflected a key turning point in the early phases of postmodernism and a legitimating source for those architects who first dared to confront history as an intellectual problem and not merely as a stylistic question. This book shows how architectural phenomenology radically transformed how architects engaged, theorized, and produced history. The book discusses the contributions of leading members, including Jean Labatut, Charles Moore, Christian Norberg-Schulz, and Kenneth Frampton. For architects maturing after World War II, the book contends, architectural history was a problem rather than a given. Paradoxically, their awareness of modernism’s historicity led some of them to search for an ahistorical experiential constant that might underpin all architectural expression. They drew from phenomenology, exploring the work of Bachelard, Merleau-Ponty, Heidegger, and Ricoeur, which they translated for architectural audiences. Initially, the concept that experience could be a timeless architectural language provided a unifying intellectual basis for the stylistic pluralism that characterized postmodernism. It helped give theory—especially the theory of architectural history—a new importance over practice. However, as this text makes clear, architectural phenomenologists could not accept the idea of theory as an end in itself. In the mid-1980s they were caught in the contradictory and untenable position of having to formulate their own demotion of theory.
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9781846318320
- eISBN:
- 9781846317873
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/UPO9781846317873.004
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Cultural Studies
This chapter investigates the Barcelona model of urban transformation in relation to two urban theories: Kenneth Frampton's program of Critical Regionalism, and Jane Jacobs' call for a new urbanism ...
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This chapter investigates the Barcelona model of urban transformation in relation to two urban theories: Kenneth Frampton's program of Critical Regionalism, and Jane Jacobs' call for a new urbanism that combats the suburbanisation and monofunctional zones of megacities. It looks at the urban history of modern Barcelona. A close reading of the programmatic texts by municipal urban designer, Oriol Bohigas, is also conducted. This chapter suggests that the ‘Barcelona model’ of urban transformation emerges as an adjustment of the city's fabric and architectural heritage to the new marketing needs.Less
This chapter investigates the Barcelona model of urban transformation in relation to two urban theories: Kenneth Frampton's program of Critical Regionalism, and Jane Jacobs' call for a new urbanism that combats the suburbanisation and monofunctional zones of megacities. It looks at the urban history of modern Barcelona. A close reading of the programmatic texts by municipal urban designer, Oriol Bohigas, is also conducted. This chapter suggests that the ‘Barcelona model’ of urban transformation emerges as an adjustment of the city's fabric and architectural heritage to the new marketing needs.
