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Ashes Thrown to the Wind: The Elusive Nature of Transgression
Author(s) -
Littlefield David
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.1686
Subject(s) - marine transgression , mores , relation (database) , character (mathematics) , history , sociology , aesthetics , law , philosophy , politics , political science , geology , computer science , paleontology , geometry , mathematics , structural basin , database
Transgression is not absolute. What constitutes a transgression is forever in flux, being redefined with the mores of society. The potential for transgression also does not halt with the completion of a building. David Littlefield examines the temporal character of transgression in relation to lived‐in buildings, and the manner in which transgression lodges itself between a building and an idea. Here transgression is a byproduct of the occupiers rather than their makers, sometimes to the extent that a building can take on unbearably horrific associations.