The vanity of form

Till, Jeremy

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“…The illusion of political-economic disinterest, as maintained by some of the dominant discourses and capitals within the architectural fi eld, must be revealed as such. Research not grounded in an engagement with architecture's explicit and implicit compliances runs the risk of reproducing and validating the misleadingly partial accounts fostered from within the architectural profession (Dovey and Dickson, 2002;Till, 2007 for expansion on the nature of these discourses). Within the context of the regulation research agenda, there is an urgent need to reveal the deep complicity of architecture with social order … as the practice of imagining and building a new world, architecture will always be political.…”

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Putting Architecture in its Social Place: A Cultural Political Economy of Architecture

Jones

2009

Urban Studies

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As well as being shaped by bureaucratically codifi ed state regulations, architecture is also fundamentally conditioned by the broader political-economic context in which it is commissioned, designed and understood. However, drawing attention to these noncodifi ed regulations can be controversial, as it necessitates questioning the complex social production of architecture, in the process challenging those discourses that position architecture as a practice concerned primarily with the design of socially meaningful form and meaning. Such discourses have been problematised elsewhere and, building on these contributions, this paper suggests a framework for taking seriously architecture's distinctive relationship with aesthetics and semiotics while also maintaining a sense of architects' position as a cultural élite working in defi nite political-economic contexts. Drawing primarily on theories associated with Pierre Bourdieu and cultural political economy, the paper uses the case of iconic architecture to illustrate this argument. The central role of architecture in recent place-marketing strategies is understood as a resonance between the agendas of high-profi le architects and those political and economic agencies 'selling places'. The role of architecture in providing a culturalised frame within which economic transformation is embedded is a crucial consideration here. In short, this paper suggests the necessity of a non-reductionist, political-economic foundation to the regulation and built environment research agenda. 0042-0980 Print/1360-063X Online

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Putting Architecture in its Social Place: A Cultural Political Economy of Architecture

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2009

Urban Studies

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“…It does however imply that the metaphor of architecture as a stable authority so powerful makes one believe that this is also the reality of architecture. We have already seen what happens when one starts to confuse the metaphorical for the real: the deluded belief that architecture can be autonomous; the resulting self-referentiality; the actual will to order; the concomitant suppression of the contingent (Till, 2007, 132) [29].…”

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“…Since architecture though involves transformations in the way we frame life and because design imagines a production of the future, the field cannot claim autonomy from the politics of social http://ccaasmag.org/ARCH 6 change (Dovey 1999, 1) [34]. In this dilemma, the distance between functions and needs is just one of the many rifts that contribute to the gap between architecture as it wants to be and architecture as it is (Till 2007, 131) [29].…”

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“…This stance can be traced from the first principles of Vitruvius, with his simplistic, but pervasive call for coherence, to Le Corbusier, with his cry for architecture to be rid of contingent presences. The triad of commodity, firmness and delight remains on the architectural rosary (Till, 2007: 120) [29], even if the beads have been updated to reflect contemporary concerns with use/function, technology/tectonics and aesthetics/beauty. Le Corbusier constantly evoked the cancerous metaphor for a sickness of the city, architecture, and the academy.…”

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“…Aristotle uses the ‗architekton' to illustrate the commanding relationship of theory and practice, while Plato ‗discovered a figure who under the aegis of -making‖ is able to withstand -becoming‖ (Till 2007: 132) [29]. Descartes argues ‗that buildings undertaken and completed by a single architect are usually more attractive and better planned than those which several have tried to patch up by adapting old walls built for different purposes […] the latter of which […] you would say it is chance rather than the will of man using reason that placed them so'.…”

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The vanity of form

Cited by 8 publications

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