Architecture, Innovation and Tradition. (8th January 2013)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Picon, Antoine
• Other Names: Ednie‐Brown Pia sponsoringEditor.; Burry Mark sponsoringEditor.; Burrow Andrew sponsoringEditor.
• Is Part Of: Architectural design. Volume 83:Number 1(2013:Jan./Feb.)
• Page Start: 128
• Page End: 133
• Publication Date: 2013-01-08
• Subjects: Thomas Diesel -- Thomas Alva Edison -- Malcolm McLean -- vital impulses and ethical concerns -- The Seven Lamps of Architecture -- The Stones of Venice -- Lars Spuybroek -- John Ruskin -- Bruno Latour -- Rem Koolhaas -- Delirious New York -- Studio 505, Pixel building, Melbourne -- Patrik Schumacher -- parametricism -- Gottfried Semper -- Gian Lorenzo Bernini -- Le Corbusier -- Adolf Loos -- Jacques Derrida -- Postmodernism -- Ruy Klein, Klex 1, New York; 729
• DOI: 10.1002/ad.1535
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0003-8504

Abstract

Abstract: Antoine Picon, Professor of the History of Architecture and Technology at Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD), and the author of a significant new book, Ornament: The Politics of Architecture and Subjectivity (John Wiley & Sons), publishing in April 2013, provides the counterargument to this issue. He argues that for innovation to go beyond the superficial level of being a mere design trend or fashion, it needs to avoid 'presentism' and develop a reflexive stance to history and tradition.