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conference contribution
posted on 2024-06-17, 13:08authored byD Fullaondo
Thanks to the powerful internet, voices that speak about architecture increase every day. This super-populated architectural Speaker’s Corner, is so noisy that it’s even difficult to listen what each speaker is saying. The possibility of saying has turned up to be more important than the relevance of what is actually said. It´s no longer
important who says each thing. Our hope is that among all this shouting and screaming we’ll be able to extract something intelligible and able to construct a discourse for architecture. Is this the new format of architectural
critic? Transparency is the fundamental value that rules over information transmission in the new digital universe. Transparency that intends to minimise all negativity. By definition it’s positive, operational, flat and sameness. It
offers undoubtable advantages in terms of speed, accessibility and amount of information. However, theoretical knowledge must, also by definition, include negativity. And negativity slowens, blocks and limits. The goal of theoretical critic is to segregate, separate and differentiate. It searches a certain truth that is neither transparent nor positive. It must also operate and define what is false. Simple accumulation of information and communication doesn't search or achieve a true conclusion. This paper outlines a taxonomy of the different voices speaking about architecture in the internet. Even though these architectural nano-discourses declare explicitly that they don’t want to replace traditional critic, the role they play particularly in architecture education, is very similar. And their unequivocal search for transparency based on freedom of speech and information, pulls them away from the capacities of traditional critic, of course in terms of format, but also for reason of much deeper importance.
History
Alternative title
Is there real architecture criticism in the internet?
Pagination
449-455
Location
Madrid, Spain
Start date
2014-06-12
End date
2014-06-14
ISBN-13
9788469704240
Language
eng
Publication classification
E Conference publication, E1 Full written paper - refereed
Copyright notice
2014, Critic All
Editor/Contributor(s)
[Unknown]
Title of proceedings
Critic all 2014 : Proceedings of the International Conference on Architectural Design & Criticism