Giamarelos, S;
(2015)
Interdisciplinary Deflections: Histories of the Scientific Revolution in Alberto Pérez-Gómez’s Architecture and the Crisis of Modern Science.
Journal of Architectural Education
, 69
(1)
pp. 17-27.
10.1080/10464883.2015.987069.
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Abstract
Alberto Pérez-Gómez’s 1983 Architecture and the Crisis of Modern Science is used here as a vehicle for exploring the behavior of disciplinary boundaries in the context of crisis both historically and theoretically. Responding to his contemporaneous architectural crisis of the 1970s instigated by the rise of positivism, Pérez-Gómez uses Alexandre Koyré’s history of the scientific revolution as a mirror to reflect the historical developments of architectural theory upon it. Although effectively circumscribed, his deliberate exposure to an interdisciplinary history nonetheless contributes to the opening up of a much richer constellation of perspectives that illuminate the nature of the disciplinary crisis he was trying to negotiate. These in turn open up new lines of interdisciplinary inquiry for the present condition and the new wave of positivism that haunts contemporary theories of parametricism in a novel moment of crisis.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Interdisciplinary Deflections: Histories of the Scientific Revolution in Alberto Pérez-Gómez’s Architecture and the Crisis of Modern Science |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/10464883.2015.987069 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10464883.2015.987069 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Published with license by Taylor & Francis © Stylianos Giamarelos. This is an Open Access article. Non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly attributed, cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way, is permitted. The moral rights of the named author have been asserted. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > The Bartlett School of Architecture |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1462004 |
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