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Architecture, Innovation and Tradition
Author(s) -
Picon Antoine
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
architectural design
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.128
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1554-2769
pISSN - 0003-8504
DOI - 10.1002/ad.1535
Subject(s) - presentism , architecture , subjectivity , reflexivity , politics , history of architecture , publishing , sociology , art history , management , history , social science , law , epistemology , philosophy , political science , archaeology , economics
Antoine Picon, Professor of the History of Architecture and Technology at Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD), and the author of a significant new book, Ornament: The Politics of Architecture and Subjectivity (John Wiley & Sons), publishing in April 2013, provides the counterargument to this issue. He argues that for innovation to go beyond the superficial level of being a mere design trend or fashion, it needs to avoid ‘presentism’ and develop a reflexive stance to history and tradition.
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