The cartographic and the geopolitical: advocating a new agenda in architectural thinking and research
Auteur(s): |
Jianfei Zhu
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Médium: | article de revue |
Langue(s): | anglais |
Publié dans: | arq: Architectural Research Quarterly, décembre 2017, n. 4, v. 21 |
Page(s): | 383-386 |
DOI: | 10.1017/s1359135517000537 |
Abstrait: |
Today, there is an increasing use of terms such as ‘transnational architecture’, ‘architecture beyond Europe’, ‘architecture of China, Japan and Korea’, ‘China in Africa’ and ‘Socialist architecture in Africa’. This signals a change in the basic outlook in thinking and research around architecture towards a problematic concerning geography and geopolitical relations. Michel Foucault, as early as 1967, had already said that ‘history’ was being replaced by ‘geography’, and a historical outlook on an endless timeline was being replaced by a new awareness of a finite world, of a world geography, of things happening ‘here and there’, of space and place, and of a ‘network’ we were all located within (in a speech published later as ‘Of Other Spaces: Principles of Heterotopia’).13My contention is that, due to many factors, today more than any other time, a world-historical paradigm in architectural research is being replaced, or at least radically reformed, by a new one that methodologically privileges local and material happenings as horizontally connected toothersites and happenings, in a networked geographic spread: it involves a cartographic perspective that challenges endogenous, national and formalist categories. |
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