ABSTRACT
The fundamental strategy of Critical Regionalism is to mediate the impact of universal civilization with elements derived indirectly from the peculiarities of a particular place. Ever since the beginning of the Enlightenment, civilization has been primarily concerned with instrumental reason, while culture has addressed itself to the specifics of expression to the realization of the being and the evolution of its collective psychosocial reality. The emergence of the avant-garde is inseparable from the modernization of both society and architecture. The progressive avant-garde emerges in full force, however, soon after the turn of the century with the advent of Futurism. The case can be made that Critical Regionalism as a cultural strategy is as much a bearer of world culture as it is a vehicle of universal civilization. The sense of bearing provided by the entasis of Greek columns became the touchstone of this concept of Tektonik.
