by bg-martin
A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing.
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by bg-martin
This fascinating argument from Jonathan Hill presents the case for the significance and importance of the immaterial in architecture.
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by bg-martin
Architecture depends – on what? On people, time, politics, ethics, mess: the real world.
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by bg-martin
From 1957 to 1972 the artistic and political movement known as the Situationist International (SI) worked aggressively to subvert the conservative ideology of the Western world.
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The relationship between the architectural representation and its intended product — a building — has undergone a profound transformation over the centuries.
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Psychogeography. Increasingly this term is used to illustrate a bewildering array of ideas from ley lines and the occult, to urban walking and political radicalism.
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“How do we really experience architecture?
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“A split between modern and historical realities – whether real, imagined, projected or fantasised — has long configured modern architectural culture. Projectiles by Bernard Cache | Architectural Association Publications, 2011 The very construction of this division has proved a durable, near structural, means by which to assert the idea of a properly ‘modern’ architecture defined in opposition to the past. The writings of Bernard Cache confound exactly this attempt to divide and then distance the contemporary world from its history.” Bernard […]
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by bg-martin
Take a theoretical approach to architecture with The Autopoiesis of Architecture, which presents the topic as a discipline with its own unique logic. Architecture’s conception of itself is addressed as well as its development within wider contemporary society. The Autopoiesis of Architecture: v. 1: A New Framework for Architecture by Patrick Schumacher | 2010 “Take a theoretical approach to architecture with The Autopoiesis of Architecture, which presents the topic as a discipline with its own unique logic. Architecture′s conception of […]
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