Print Email Facebook Twitter Common Space: Politics and the Production of Architectural Knowledge Title Common Space: Politics and the Production of Architectural Knowledge Author Djalali, A. Contributor Aureli, P.V. (promotor) Riedijk, M. (promotor) Barbieri, S.U. (promotor) Faculty Architecture and The Built Environment Department Architecture Date 2014-05-16 Abstract Today we are familiar with definitions of architecture as an integrated, multidisciplinary “networked practice,” which takes its cognitive potential from a “diffused design intelligence.” These definitions were introduced to counter an individual, authorial approach to design which allegedly characterized modern architecture since its beginnings. This thesis aims to overcome such a distinction, showing that, on the contrary, a diffused, collective intelligence was at the core of architectural production since its invention in the 15th century. Renaissance sprezzatura, the monster in Enlightened France, Alois Riegl's Kunstwollen, Aldo Rossi's collective memory and the 1970s debate on architectural language are taken as indexes of a Western tradition of collective intelligence in design. Moreover, this genealogy shows that by embracing “collective intelligence” and “projective” practice architecture does not necessarily surrender to constituted political powers and to the forces of the market. On the contrary, this thesis shows how such a practice can be an instance of a positive and constitutive political force—in other words, able to produce the common. Subject ArchitectureCommonRenaissanceAldo RossiAlois RieglPeter EisenmanHenri Labrouste To reference this document use: https://doi.org/10.4233/uuid:52100da1-f6b1-42ce-929a-9fd329ab5d22 Embargo date 2016-05-01 ISBN 9789461863089 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type doctoral thesis Rights (c) 2014 Djalali, A. Files PDF thesis_FINAL.pdf 7.86 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:52100da1-f6b1-42ce-929a-9fd329ab5d22/datastream/OBJ/view