Kenneth Frampton

How to be modern and to continue the tradition…?

"reformed modernism"

“Nothing is invented, there is a past for everything”

• Consciously bounded architecture: Critical regionalism manifests itself as a consciously bounded architecture. Most of the contemporary buildings do not seem to have any binding to where they are, only to a blindly borrowed image. This is a glimpse of what is prevalent in other parts of the city as well.

Territorial orientation: It states that a building is not a freestanding object but established a territory and is established in a territory.

Architecture as tectonic: It looks at architecture as a tectonic fact rather than the reduction of built environment to a series of ill assorted scenographic episodes. Like the imagery adopted for these buildings which is then just pasted on to the urban fabric.

Optimizing building systems: It stresses on optimizing the use of building systems like air conditioning and a tendency to treat all its openings as delicate transitional zones to respond to specific conditions of climate and light of a place. This factor is totally ignored insensitively. Consequently, most of these buildings suffer inefficiency of resource management and maintenance.

Emphasis on the Tactile: It stresses that the tactile is as important as the visual.

Experiential qualities of space are irreplaceable: It claims that one can’t replace experiential qualities of space within, with information. Sensitivity towards local light, ambient sessions of heat, cold, humidity and air movement are the tools of space making.

Reinterpreting vernacular elements: The most important feature is that critical regionalism attempts to reinterpret vernacular elements in the making of space within and space without. It endeavors to cultivate a contemporary place oriented by culture without becoming too simplistic or direct about formal references or levels of technology

Raj Rewal

• "I don’t believe in blindly copying our past. We have to learn from the precedents to solve our existing problems. I feel we have to re-invent modernity in terms of our own traditions and cultural heritage. It is an important task to search for a modern architectural language, which responds to our requirements, lifestyle, climate and building materials

• Traditional architecture was based on a vocabulary of design which may not be relevant today even in Kashmir or Rajasthan. We are building with concrete with concrete frame structures, infill walls and now also beginning to build partially industrial structures. The base of contemporary architecture has to be new techniques of building and a sensible use of modern and TRADITIONAL MATERIALS.

• "Our identity we are searching for is going to be pluralistic. It is not a mono centric one."India is a pluralistic society. It has many layers of orders. Firstly overviews are very important in looking for identity. Secondly identity is not a single pattern.

• Architect should have the right instincts so that he can tell the difference between something authentic and something superficially picked up.There are three streams that create built form. The first is what is being constructed in the rural areas. It is indigenous. And the second is new popular.The third is the architect. We are the purveyors of myths and of ideologies

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