Colletti, M;
(2016)
The Awesome and Capricious Language of Past, Present and Future Digital Moods.
Architectural Design
, 86
(6)
pp. 118-125.
10.1002/ad.2120.
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Abstract
Can cultural progress be held back by linguistic limitations? Architect and educator Marjan Colletti, cofounder of London practice MAM‐arch, examines the nouns, adjectives and adjectival compounds used by the architectural profession during the first and second digital turns. He reflects on how restricted vocabularies can cause initially forward‐looking concepts to descend into the realm of doctrine and ‘‐isms’, and argues that true advancement requires constant evolution of the language employed to describe it.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | The Awesome and Capricious Language of Past, Present and Future Digital Moods |
| DOI: | 10.1002/ad.2120 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1002/ad.2120 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the version of record. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Le Antichitá Romane, Angelo Rotili, Rome, Cappriccio, Appian Way, Goethe, Adrian Forty, Words and Buildings: A Vocabulary of Modern Architecture, Marjan Colletti, Guan Lee, Tea Lim, Pavlos Fereos, The Bartlett School of Architecture, aRC92)himera, Haus der Architektur, Graz, Austria, David Mayernik, Oxford English Dictionary, The Guardian, Ali Rahim, Hernan Diaz Alonso, Neil Leach, Stephen Perrella, Marcos Novak, Studio Zaha Hadid, Greg Lynn, MAM-Arch, Richard Beckett, Algae-Cellunoi, FRAC Centre, Orléans, France, Mario Carpo, Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, Warner Bros, The LEGO ® Movie, Peter Debruge, François Roche, SOMA, Vague Formations, Google, Plantolith, 3D Printshow, Business Design Centre, London, Kadri Tamre, FrAgile 2: Porous Cast, Tallinn Architecture Biennale TAB, Estonia, Xenobaroque:Stereoscopic?, Marcos Cruz, Alga(e)zebo |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices 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/10061682 |
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