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The Return of Beauty: Driving a Wedge Between Objects and Qualities
Author(s) -
Harman Graham
Publication year - 2019
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.2475
Subject(s) - beauty , architecture , ontology , object (grammar) , aesthetics , key (lock) , sociology , visual arts , computer science , epistemology , art , philosophy , artificial intelligence , computer security
Object‐oriented ontology (OOO) has been gaining traction in architectural education in recent years, as a way of seeing the world not anthropocentrically, but instead making a distinction between objects and their latent bundles of qualities. OOO's key author, philosopher Graham Harman , Distinguished Professor at the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI‐Arc), outlines its basic tenets and its relationship to contemporary notions of architectural beauty.