The powers of architecture.

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-1-1984

Abstract

The current crisis in architecture's effectual and significance power is the result of historical processes which have been analyzed (by the Left) as the development of industrial capitalism and (by Foucault) as the development of technical-instrumental power. These processes have led to the loss of the authority of the divine referential, of the authenticity of the object, and of our sense of historicity. To recover the power of meaning (beyond mere instrumentality, nostalgic sentimentality, and power emblems), the communicative relations between spatial structure and human life-praxis must be investigated critically. Only then will architecture and urban space contribute their hermeneutic power to the retrieval of the human potential to appropriate the world. -Author

Identifier

0021353931 (Scopus)

Publication Title

Environment Planning D Society Space

External Full Text Location

https://doi.org/10.1068/d020003

First Page

3

Last Page

22

Issue

1

Volume

2

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