Redrawing Feísmo. New Visual Narratives for a Galician Architectural Counterculture

Abstract

In a context of climate crisis and resource scarcity, feísmo emerges as a dissident model of reference, from which multiple examples and strategies can be drawn. It places strong emphasis on the soft dimension of architecture and establishes a symbiosis between standardized products and local culture. This article argues for the need to move beyond the stigmatizing representations of Galician feísmo and to redefine its imaginary in line with the critical narratives that have emerged around the phenomenon. Reconstructing the visual imaginary of feísmo becomes a necessary task—at a time of compulsive image consumption—for incorporating it into architectural discourse as a form of dissidence rooted in peripheral cultures, fully applicable to the practice of the discipline.