Beyond critical regionalism

摘要

Providing "a response to the place in which we live, our places, our economic and social situations", and to "translate the traditions and materials of the places in which we operate in a contemporary way, not through fashionable forms or fireworks, but with silence, space, the experience of emptiness". Mauricio Rocha and Gabriela Carrillo express a sentiment many architects have been expressing recently, particularly those in emerging economies. Almost a century after the advent of modernism and the International Style, rapid urbanisation, globalisation and environmental challenges are forcing many of us to take stock and wonder again about the place of architecture in the world, in society, and its responsibility to the environment.