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- On Topography
- Abstract
- Early modern architecture often had a cumbersome relationship with topography: uneven landscapes were regularly flattened or raised in order to make place for clean plan-based orthogonal compositions. Le Corbusier’s pilotis constitute an unmistakable metaphor for this rupture with the topos. Post-war architecture shows a changing attitude
towards context, topography and landscape and it is within this mindset that Frampton starts to advocate for an architecture that is sensitive towards the existing ground conditions. For Frampton a ‘grounded’ architecture did not just add depth and meaning to an impoverished modernism, but offered a political tool to counter the commodification of architecture into a global consumer product.
- Citation
- Ickx, W. (2019). On Topography. Critical Regionalism . Revisited, OASE, (103), 120–122. Retrieved from https://oasejournal.nl/en/Issues/103/OnTopography
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- BC Architects, Irina Davidovici, Job Floris, Kenneth Frampton, Charles Holland, Wonne Ickx, Esin Komez, Andrew Leach and Nicole Sully, Lilith Ronner van Hooijdonk, Carmen Popescu, Stylianos Giamarelos, Marine Urbain, Maarten Vanden Driessche, Marjoleine van Eig
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