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 How do water features create either a larger sense of place or a larger sense of universal modernism within a urban landscape?

Diagrammatic Representation of Water Features Cultivating a Sense of Place

   Critical Regionalism Versus Universal Modernism

       Ever notice how the majority of water features built today are less literal, and more, for lack of a better term, more modern? Kenneth Frampton in his writing "Prospects for a Critical Regionalism outlines what universal modernism means according to Paul Ricoeur, "while being the advancement of mankind... constitutes a sort of subtle destruction, not only of traditional cultures, which might not be an irreparable wrong, but also of what I shall call for the time being the creative nucleus of great civilizations and culture (pg. 148)." This term juxtaposes with Frampton's newly introduced term critical regionalism, which means to have a "strong desire for realizing an identity (pg. 148)." So, a critically regional design should contain specificity of place, and serve as marker of historical significance. Overall, Frampton claims any design, including a a water feature should follow the guidelines of technological, functional, and tectonically significant designations of place.

    

Technology

    Environmentally friendly technology of water features!

Tectonically

    All aspects should point to the specificity of place!

Functionally

    Water features should have the "uncanny capacity for the craft enrichment of both form and space!

Possible Water Features of Study:

Crown Fountain in Millennium Park (Chicago, IL)

Paley Park (New York City, NY)

Freeway Park (Seattle, WA)

Salk Institute Water Feature (San Diego, CA)

Trevi Fountain (Rome, Italy)

Fountain of the Four Rivers (Rome, Italy)

Buckingham Fountain (Chicago, Illinois)

Swann Memorial Fountain (Philadelphia, PA)

As I listed these I realize the functions of some may knock aspects of these fountains into the critical regional category and vice versa. So, this is TO BE CONTINUED!!

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