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unusual facts about critical regionalism



Bagsværd Church

The architectural critic Kenneth Frampton considers Bagsværd Church an outstanding example of critical regionalism owing to the synthesis it achieves between universal and regional cultures.

Villa Savoye

After the Villa Savoye Corbusier's experimentation with Surrealism informed his design for the Beistegui apartments, but his next villa design, for Mademoiselle Mandrot near Toulon had a regionalist agenda and relied on local stone for its finish.


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Bagsværd Church

Frampton, Kenneth: Towards a Critical Regionalism: Six Points for an Architecture of Resistance in Foster, Hal (ed.): The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture, New York: New Press, 2002.