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Ahmed Abu Al Haija open house international Vol.37 No.1, March 2012 Alienation Of Traditional Habitats And Shelters In Jordanian Villages KAPLAN, S. 1987. Aesthetics, Affect and Cognition: Environmental Preference from an Evolutionary Perspective. Environment and Behaviour, vol 19. PP 3-32. KHAMMASH, A. 1995. Notes on Villages Architecture in Jordan, Arabesque Int., 2nd Edition. Louisiana. KHATIB, R., 2008. Concept for Restoring Sukkar Building (trans), 1st Balqa Engigneering Conference – heritage and construction, Book of Proceeding, Salt. KHRESAT, M. AL-SAWARIEH, N MAHAFTHA, M. HAZAYMEH, E. 2000. The History of Jordan and its Civilization (trans.), Hamadeh Corporation for Studies and Services, Irbid-Jordan. LANSING, P and DE VRIES, P. 2007. Sustainable Tourism: Ethical Alternative or Marketing Ploy? Journal of Business Ethics, 72:77-85. MCCANN, L. (1997) Patriloca co-residential Units (PCUs) in Al-Barha: Dual household Structure in a Provincial Town in Jordan, Journal of Comparative Family Studies, Vol. 28 Issue 2, p113-135. MINISTRY OF TOURISM AND ANTIQUITIES 2006. Amman, Project of Rehabilitation and Re-use of Umm Qais Village Through Community Participation and Increase of Economic Opportunities. NAA’NA, J. 2001. Problems of Territorial Use on the Environment in Al Qadisiyya Area (trans.), Master Degree, Juba University, Sudan. POCOCK, D. and HUDSON, R. 1978. Images of the Urban Environment , New York: Columbia University Press. RELPH, E. 2000. In: Classic in Human Geography Revisited, Progress in Human Geography. 24, 4 pp. 612-617. ROBINSON, M. and BONIFACE, P. (Eds.). 1999. Tourism and Cultural Conflict, M, and Boniface, P., Cabi Pubblishing, New York. SHRYOCK, A. 1997. Nationalism and the Genealogical Imagination : Oral History and Textual Authority in Tribal Jordan, University of California Press. SMITH, P. 2003. the Dynamic of Delight: Architecture and Aesthetics, London, New York, Routledge. 9 2 STATISTICAL DEPARTMENT OF JORDAN 2010. Document N. 5/1/2/1319, 30/3/2010, (trans.). STEINER, F. and BUTLER, K. 2007. Planning and Urban Design Standards, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, New Jersey. STRUCTURAL URBAN PLAN OF AL QADISIYYA, 2009, Municipality of Al Qadisiyya. TILLEY, C. 2006. Introduction: Identity, Place, Landscape and Heritage, Journal of Material Culture, Sage Publication, London, Vol. 11 (1/2): 7-32. UNESCO Project Document 2004 Jordan: Dana Biosphere Reserve Sub-Project. Author’s Address: Ahmed Abu Al Haija Philadelphia University – Jordan alhaija2@gmail.com
Abstract A READING IN CRITICAL REGIONALISM: ANALYSIS OF TWO HOUSES BY HAN TÜMERTEKİN* Hilal Aycı & Esin Boyacıoğlu If regionalism is defined as designing responsibly in reaction to a local context, then critical regionalism can be defined as doing so without denying the universally enlightening content of the modernist project. Armed with this definition, this article attempts to analyze two houses by architect Han Tümertekin that are set in a rural context in a very small Aegean village in Turkey. The aim of the paper is to explore the extent to which these two buildings embrace the tenets of critical regionalism and to understand the local relevance as well as international esteem of the buildings. Keywords: Critical regionalism, tactile, place-context, tectonic-poetic, defamiliarization / estrangement. INTRODUC TION Like in many disciplines, the need for theories in architecture arose from the tendency to reduce criticism to personal views and even prejudices of a writer. On the other hand, it is largely common for critics to reduce the built environment into two categories: universal and local. Within the intersection of these seemingly opposite concepts, there exist others such as location, context, culture and time, which transform the universal and local duality, that was especially perceived after World War II, into concepts capable of enriching the language and content of architecture. Lewis Mumford, in a 1971 speech, pointed out that the “Modern Movement was regional at heart” (Tzonis, Lefaivre, 2003: 6) suggesting a new reading for the built environment instead of merely reading it as universal or local. This objection to approaching universal and local as two opposite concepts was furthered by Alexander Tzonis, Liane Lefaivre and Kenneth Frampton in the 1980s. With the contribution of these writers, “critical” was appended to the concept of regionalism, building up a new and critical prospect. Similarly, Frampton, in his 1980 article “Towards a Critical Regionalism: Six Points for an Architecture of Resistance,” discussed six concepts which mediate between universal and local. The main idea of this article was that a designer must engage with the specificities of culture, place, tectonics and tactile experience, otherwise the built environment will only consist of functional entities. Tzonis and Lafaivre on the other hand put forward another concept within the theme of critical regionalism; defamiliarization. Defamiliarization proposes an awareness of the familiar environments of daily life. According to critical regionalism, these concepts need to be taken critically in order to have more ‘appropriate works’ in the built environment. These concepts also pave the way for prolific debates to interpret the built environment. The aim of this essay is to form a conceptual framework that is “critically regionalist” and enables a reading specific to Han Tümertekin’s B2 and SM Houses. Through this method, the goal is to spotlight the hidden qualities of the buildings which are not perceived at first sight. This reading intends to take the architectural product beyond the familiar way of defining a product on the basis of function, and enables a reading of the interfaces of opposite concepts. The aforementioned houses * This article is adapted from the Hilal Aycı’s master thesis , "Seeking the Universal within The Local: A Reading Of Han Tümertekin's B2 and SM Houses Through the Prominent Concepts of ‘Critical Regionalism’ ” (thesis advisor: Associate Prof. Dr. Esin Boyacıoğlu), submitted to the Gazi University Institute of Science and Technology, Ankara, TURKEY, 2008. 9 3 open house international Vol.37 No.1, March 2012 A Reading in Critical Regionalism: Analysis Of Two Houses By Han Tümertekin
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