Vibrant Architecture. Matter as a CoDesigner of Living Structures

After a long period of often frivolous form making and unprincipled egoism in architecture, which have played into the hands of the most venal interests of real-estate developers and marketers, some architects are looking for more substantial ideas to serve, more meaningful goals to strive for, and...

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Tipo de recurso:
Book
Fecha de publicación:
2015
Institución:
Universidad de Bogotá Jorge Tadeo Lozano
Repositorio:
Expeditio: repositorio UTadeo
Idioma:
eng
OAI Identifier:
oai:expeditiorepositorio.utadeo.edu.co:20.500.12010/17617
Acceso en línea:
https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110403732-016/html
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12010/17617
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110403732-016
Palabra clave:
Arquitectura
Principios en la arquitectura
Arquitectura vibrante
Arquitectos
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Summary:After a long period of often frivolous form making and unprincipled egoism in architecture, which have played into the hands of the most venal interests of real-estate developers and marketers, some architects are looking for more substantial ideas to serve, more meaningful goals to strive for, and the manifesto has come back. It is probably a temporary aberration, owing to an unsustainable idealism that lurks within statements of principle, but even their brief resurgence can help to regenerate – at least for a while – our beloved, beleaguered field. (Woods, 2011)