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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.

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