TRACE: Transmission in Rhetorics, Arts and Cultural Evolution
3 total works
Exit-Architektur. Design Zwischen Krieg Und Frieden
by Stephan Truby and Stephan Tr by
Published 20 December 2007
"First we shape things, then they shape us," wusste Winston Churchill. Was sind wahrhaft pragende Architekturen? Wen pragen sie? Und womit pragen sie? Der Autor gibt folgende uberraschende Antwort auf diese Fragen: durch Kriegs- bzw. Stressnahe. Nach einer Tour d'horizon durch romische Tempelbauten, Washingtons Korridore der Macht und Mekkas Anti-Panikarchitekturen wird deutlich: die Architektur ist alles andere als Background. Sie steht mitten auf dem heissen Pol der Transmissionsdynamik und vermag Kulturen, Imperien, ja Religionen zu andern
"First we shape things, then they shape us", was Churchill's view. What kind of architecture can be said to shape? Who does it shape? And by what means does it shape? The author's answers to these questions are a surprise in this diverting manifesto.
"First we shape things, then they shape us", was Churchill's view. What kind of architecture can be said to shape? Who does it shape? And by what means does it shape? The author's answers to these questions are a surprise. Through war and proximity to stress. After a tour d'horizon through Roman temples, Washington's corridors of power and Mecca's anti-panic architecture it becomes clear that architecture is anything but in the background. Instead it is situated in the hot spot of transmission dynamics and is capable of altering cultures, empires and even religions.