Submitted by Jonathan Budd

An Indian Modernism

Architecture News - Apr 03, 2008 - 13:39   7805 views

This house would be an exciting example of what we could call "Regional Modernism", a contemporary and authentic interpretation of the modern taste. The Modernist approach in architecture usually ends up in a formalism foreign to local aesthetic taste. A mainstream Regionalism, on the other hand, takes refuge in traditional elements that are defunct and redundant in contemporary life. A "Regional Modernism" could probably invent a modern dialect that couples certain abstract principles of the regional form-language (especially the syntactic categories) with the modern vocabulary. This design inspires such a venture, I think...