ABSTRACT
There is a paradox: how to become modern and to return
to sources; how to revive an old dormant civilisation and
take part in universal civilisation.
(Ricoeur 2007 [1965]: 47)
As already discussed in the previous chapters, one of the central
problems of architecture today is its global homogenization, a
development which exhibits a fundamental indifference to local
conditions, culture and climate. This development yields the
need to consider both the role of the local and the way it may be
deployed in contemporary architectural design, and the physical
articulation of architectures and the built environment.
