The Unbearable Lightness of Building—A Cautionary Tale

Sayer, Derek

doi:10.1162/1526381041887402

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“…Ainda no Século XVIII, houveram exposições em Hamburgo (Alemanha, 1790) e em Praga (República Tcheca, 1791) (SAYER, 2004).…”

Section: Primeira Fase -As Primeiras Exposições E a Promoção Do Designunclassified

Linha Do Tempo Das Políticas De Design: Das Grandes Exposições Às Políticas Internacionais Integradas

Gomes¹,

Araújo²

2016

Blucher Design Proceedings

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Resumo:Desde o final do Século XVIII, o design é reconhecido por governos como estratégia de desenvolvimento. A entrega de programas e políticas de design ao redor do globo é distinta e se relaciona com o seu contexto político, econômico e cultural. Este artigo apresenta uma revisão histórica da evolução das políticas de design com o objetivo de auxiliar pesquisadores, designers e policy-makers a compreender como as políticas e programas de design surgiram e quais foram suas consequências sobre as economias nacionais. Este estudo propõe uma linha do tempo das políticas de design organizada em seis grandes fases, a partir de um levantamento de marcos históricos entre os Séculos XVIII e XXI, período das Grandes Exposições e feiras comerciais às atuais políticas internacionais integradas. Palavras

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“…Ainda no Século XVIII, houveram exposições em Hamburgo (Alemanha, 1790) e em Praga (República Tcheca, 1791) (SAYER, 2004).…”

Section: Primeira Fase -As Primeiras Exposições E a Promoção Do Designunclassified

Linha Do Tempo Das Políticas De Design: Das Grandes Exposições Às Políticas Internacionais Integradas

Gomes¹,

Araújo²

2016

Blucher Design Proceedings

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“…as a matter of historical fact, at no point in that history, prior to 1995, was Veletržní palác in any significant way linked with the modernist art that now, seemingly so appropriately, lines its halls. 108 Received with acclaim at its opening and hailed by le corbusier as an "extraordinarily significant building" 109 it was an embodiment, avant la lettre, of what later became known as the International Style in architecture, although due to the division of modernity between the east and the West, it was excluded from its official register for nearly five decades after the war. thus the building is a mixture of traces so typical of the convoluted history of central europe.…”

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DWELLING WITHIN: THE INHABITED RUINS OF HISTORY¹

Gafijczuk

2013

History and Theory

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Addressing the recent call to rethink history as a form of presence, the essay works toward a recovery of a space in which such presence of history is encoded. I argue that history as a form of active perception is akin to virtual witnessing of the past in the moment of our encounter with historical artifacts, be they texts, photographs, or buildings. To this end, I engage with the conceptual and material aspects of historical perception, deriving a model of history as “inhabited ruins,” the way it emerges together with historical consciousness and finds an especially dynamic expression in Georg Simmel's philosophy of culture. Throughout, I work with the notion of distance and trans‐dimensional presence as the forces that shape and reshape historical awareness. Ruins, intimately connected to the modern historical imagination, are approached not as sites of commemoration or nostalgia, but as spaces of active exchange between presence and disappearance. As such, they are taken to be the models for the transitive character of history itself, blurring the division between perception and thought. In other words, ruins are taken as structures that evoke and summon the past to an encounter with contemporary reality—a type of co‐appearance that opens the possibility of virtually witnessing the past. I conclude that the logic of “inhabited ruins” constitutes the event‐horizon of modern identity, always placing history right at the threshold of fragmentation.

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