Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
Architectural history in the Anthropocene: towards methodology
In recent years, different fields in the Humanities have tried to address the staggeringly complex challenge placed before them by the Anthropocene. Whereas architects have engaged with the issue by means of different kinds of sustainable design, architectural history has struggled to produce methodologies that respond to the implications of our new condition. It has always assumed buildings to be stable entities, fixed in time and space. Yet both the construction and upkeep of buildings produce greenhouse gas emissions that extend into the future and cut across national borders, contributing to environmental degradation on many levels. In industrialized countries, carbon dependency is contingent on political and economic networks whose complicities also need to be interpellated. Given these interdependencies, architectural history can no longer be contained within the scope of a single discipline. This paper asks how confronting this predicament can generate new disciplinary approaches that confront the existential threat to our planet.
Architectural history in the Anthropocene: towards methodology
In recent years, different fields in the Humanities have tried to address the staggeringly complex challenge placed before them by the Anthropocene. Whereas architects have engaged with the issue by means of different kinds of sustainable design, architectural history has struggled to produce methodologies that respond to the implications of our new condition. It has always assumed buildings to be stable entities, fixed in time and space. Yet both the construction and upkeep of buildings produce greenhouse gas emissions that extend into the future and cut across national borders, contributing to environmental degradation on many levels. In industrialized countries, carbon dependency is contingent on political and economic networks whose complicities also need to be interpellated. Given these interdependencies, architectural history can no longer be contained within the scope of a single discipline. This paper asks how confronting this predicament can generate new disciplinary approaches that confront the existential threat to our planet.
Architectural history in the Anthropocene: towards methodology
Meyer, Esther da Costa (Autor:in)
The Journal of Architecture ; 21 ; 1203-1225
16.11.2016
23 pages
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
Architectural history in the Anthropocene: towards methodology
| Online Contents | 2016
Architectural history in the Anthropocene: towards methodology
| British Library Online Contents | 2016
Architectural history in the Anthropocene: towards methodology
| British Library Online Contents | 2016
Architectural History in the Anthropocene
| Online Contents | 2016
Architectural History in the Anthropocene
| British Library Online Contents | 2016