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Reconsidering the enabling architect

Authors :
Sergio López-Piñeiro
Source :
Architectural Research Quarterly. 14:286-288
Publication Year :
2010
Publisher :
Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2010.

Abstract

A trade can be of two types depending on the observation skills of its workers: deception managers or truth revealers. The first group is composed of spies, con artists and negotiators: all of them try to show what is not while ambiguously hiding what really is. Artists mainly define the second group: for them, an artistic product only works when it opens up the reality it aims to describe. Art is or is not. There is no middle ground: period.

Details

ISSN :
14740516 and 13591355
Volume :
14
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Architectural Research Quarterly
Accession number :
edsair.doi...........a2c5fb49c84b9db860fc837374f8db9e
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1017/s1359135510001119