Critical Resistance of a Hut – in Six Points (Cultivation of Critical Practice Through the Memorial House Design by the Architect Ranko Radović)

Marina Radulj; Maja Milić Aleksić; Ognjen Šukalo

doi:10.7251/aggplus/2109034r

Original scientific paper

Published: 30.12.2021. Architecture

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Critical Resistance of a Hut – in Six Points (Cultivation of Critical Practice Through the Memorial House Design by the Architect Ranko Radović)

Abstract

This paper deals with the importance of critical design practice in order to nurture, cultivate and build architectural culture. The main goal is to analyse the Memorial House in the Sutjeska National Park, designed by the architect Ranko Radović, through the scientific description, using Kenneth Frampton’s theoretical text “Towards Critical Regionalism - Six Points for an Architecture of Resistance” as an analytical method. In a broader sense, the paper aims to draw attention to the idea of critical practice in modern circumstances by researching the design methodologies and principles based on tradition. The research result is important for contemporary architectural theory and practice in our region and beyond. It indicates the importance of learning architecture based on knowledge and transferring the knowledge gained through the critical practice of our architectural heritage as one of the possible ways to rethink the architectural profession in contemporary conditions of its evident marginalisation under the force of the capital and universalisation of the built environment.

Keywords:

critical design practice,

Architecture of Resistance,

critical regionalism

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