Word: regionaliste
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...just got tweed-suited postcolonial theorists gnawing at their pencils. In the fifth installment of his Charles Eliot Norton lectures this Monday, Nobel Prize-winning novelist Orhan Pamuk waxed troubled before a packed audience in Sanders Theatre. The American writer, he said, has the luxury of dabbling in regionalist vernacular (a hat tip to his beloved Faulkner); in contrast, the Turkish novelist is doomed to make a “museum” of his fiction, preserving his culture and displaying it to Europe by packing in as many observations as he can. Rather than being a thing of beauty...
...establishment hated Wyeth for much of his career. He was a regionalist and a realist when the vogue was abstract expressionism, a plainspoken farmer among chain smoking wildmen. He was the country mouse; they were the city mice. He had nothing new to show them, and they had no time...
...Bawa's impact on Asian architects - Sri Lankan Milroy Perera, Singaporean Mok Wei Wei and many others documented by Robson - is certainly plain to see. All have adapted the basic regionalist Bawa style, which Bawa only loosely outlined. First, he wrote in a 1968 article, "a building must, at the very least, satisfy the needs that gave it birth, both physical and spiritual." Second, it "must be in accord and in sympathy with the ambience [of its setting]." And "there must be a knowledgeable and true use of the materials with which you build...
...Antoine Predock: House In the capricious realm where world-class architectural reputations are created, Predock has had two things going against him: because he practices in Albuquerque, New Mexico, he has been dismissed as a regionalist, and because he is earnestly New Agey in explaining his architecture (elemental earth forces, invisible Native American residues, UFOS and so on), critics and tastemakers have not always granted him his considerable due. But he has consistently produced marvelous, singular work, and the house he just finished in the Dallas suburb of Highland Park is particularly fine. Set on a steep, forested site...
...going hard core himself, but it was a poor fit. He had always been a ladies' man (his name is an abbreviation of Ladies Love Cool James) and, while the rest of the industry has chased trends--from gangsta (Snoop Dogg) to pimp (Jay-Z) to pot-smoking party regionalist (Nelly)--LL has remained a lover...