Thesis: >Traditionalist and modernist architecture are both mass-produced, industrial and international. Is there an alternative? Alternative: >When the hist

Thesis: >Traditionalist and modernist architecture are both mass-produced, industrial and international. Is there an alternative? Alternative: >When the historian Frampton called for a ‘Critical Regionalism’, a modern architecture sensitive to place and materials, he found an example in the work of Álvaro Siza in Portugal. Rebuttle: regional/vernacular designs almost always involves more labour, which is expensive in advanced economies. Small countries/markets can't rationalize engineering entire regional specific building techniques and validate materials. Large countries/markets have multiple climate zones. In the end mass construction will fall back on value-engineered mass produced industrial building components.