Critical Regionalism; Architectural Identity in Malaysia
- School of Architecture, Building and Design Taylor’s University, 47500 Subang Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia.
Published in The Fourth NZAAR International Event Series on Natural and Built Environment, Cities, Sustainability and Advanced Engineering, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 27 January 2018, pages 1 to 11. New Zealand Academy of Applied Research. ISSN 2463-5979 (online), 2463-5960 (print). Indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection, Conference Proceedings Citation Index (Clarivate).
Abstract
Critical Regionalism in architecture had its origins the early 1980s and became the focus of several symposia in newly independent countries determined to throw off the mantle of colonial rule and establish their unique architectural ‘identity’. In 1989 the author of this paper devised a Taxonomy of Regionalism, which identified a spectrum of approaches from the Conservative Vernacular to Abstract Regionalism. In this paper the author revisits the taxonomy and asserts that Critical Regionalism is still in the mainstream of architectural discourse,
Keywords: Critical regionalism; architectural identity; post-colonial; conservative vernacular; abstract regionalism
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