ABSTRACT
Although the later – modernist – historiography minimized regionalism’s role
and presence in architectural debate and production, it was an important theme
in late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century architecture.1 The roots of the
regionalist concept go back to the last decades of the nineteenth century.2 The
many changes in society due to industrialization formed the soil in which
regionalism germinated as a cultural strategy to counter alienation. As a move-
ment, regionalism manifested itself in literature as well as art and architecture.
It can be dissociated neither from the Arts and Crafts movement, which
