| Author(s): |
Irénée Scalbert
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| Medium: | journal article |
| Language(s): | English |
| Published in: | arq: Architectural Research Quarterly, 1997, n. 3, v. 2 |
| Page(s): | 18-25 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/s1359135500001391 |
| Abstract: |
For the last 40 years, organic values have prevailed in Western architecture. The conflict in the 1950s between the organic and the typical with its ideology of mechanisation is currently being reenacted under the new categories of the generic and the specific. These two orders of value are assumed to be incompatible, even though both history and theory suggest otherwise. In this conflict, the organic has so far survived unscathed in spite of a growing interest in the typical, the status of which remains unclarified: should it be envisaged as a means to an aesthetic, as it is at present, or should it be a means to affluence? |
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