![]() ![]() The talk is followed by a discussion with Sanford Kwinter, professor in graduate architecture and urban design at Pratt University and co-author, with Moe, of the forthcoming book What is Energy and How (Else) Might We Think About it?. ![]() ![]() He proposes alternate modes of reference that go beyond the Cartesian plane, which, he argues, fails to elucidate the political, social, and ecological dimensions of architecture, instead providing the disabling illusion that architecture exists as a single object in a frozen shape-space. “Architecture is not simply located a building is not simply located,” Moe remarks as he pushes back against the framework of understanding architecture as purely terrestrial. Towards a New Architecture by Le Corbusier 4,356 ratings, 3.95 average rating, 158 reviews Open Preview Towards a New Architecture Quotes Showing 1-6 of 6 Our world, like a charnel-house, is strewn with the detritus of dead epochs. In this video, Kiel Moe, Gerald Sheff Chair in Architecture at McGill University, approaches this issue via mathematician and philosopher Alfred North Whitehead’s theory of the fallacy of misplaced concreteness, especially as it is evidenced in modern architectural production. To address the salient environmental, social, and political crisis of our world, we need to change many of our basic theoretical and practical assumptions about what architectural design is and does. ![]()
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