Critical Regionalism
Modernism deliberately inflected by local climate, material and craft, as a resistance to placelessness. Distinct from vernacular: it is a modernist position about place, not the local tradition itself.
- Also called
- regionalism
- Seen in the wild
- None
- Broader
- None
- Narrower
- None
- Usage
- Not measured
- Provenance
- vendoredarchitizer STYLES, read 21 Aug 2026
- Kind
- MovementA declared movement with an art-historical record behind it. A disagreement about its edges is a disagreement about that record, and is settled by reading it.
- Status
- active
- Material Semantics id
- style.critical-regionalism
Crosswalks
| Scheme | Identifier | Their label, or the search | Match |
|---|---|---|---|
| Getty AAT | 300256479 | critical regionalism | exactMatch |