Towards a Critical Regionalism:
Six Points for an Architecture of Resistance
KENNETH FRAMPTON
The phenomenon of uiversaliation, while being an advancement of man
Kind, a the same time consiaes@ sort ofsbte destruction, not oy of
‘radional cultures, which might not be an irreparable wrong, ut aie of
‘ha shal call for theme being the creative nclns of reat alures, that
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the etical and mythical nucleus of mankind. The conc sprigs up from
there We have he fling tha hs dle worl ciaion a he some
tert a sor of ation or wearing aay a the expense ofthe cull
‘esurces which hare made the great izations othe past. Ths thet
“apressed. among other distrbing eects, by the spreading before our eyes
‘of amedioee ciation whichis the absurd counterpart of what I was ust
Calling elementary culture. Everywhere throughout the worl, one fds he
Same bad movie, the same slot machines, the same plastic or aluminum