Tendencies and Facts. Architecture as a Technical Object
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2020
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Globalization in architecture is taken today both as a given context of the contemporary world and as a recent phenomenon. The argument behind this is usually sustained by the apparent universal validity of technology. This claim can be questioned both historically and conceptually, by opposing the general tendencies of technical transformations with the singularity of any fact. This is undertaken by first analyzing the becoming of the single technical object, then by showing its integration into a technical ensemble and finally elaborating its relationship to its wilder social and historical milieu. By this, the modern divide between the cultural and technological, the local and the global will be questioned, as the technological ever has and will have a cultural value, while the cultural also includes the technological.
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2020 (3)
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20 - 23
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Tongji University, College of Architecture and Urban Planning
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Technical objects; Technology and culture; Globalization; General tendencies; Historical facts
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03715 - Stalder, Laurent / Stalder, Laurent