The Architecture of Explosive Slowness

Abstract

Architecture as a discipline is, by definition, slow: slow in updating its technologies, slower than fashion in changing its styles, slower than the life that occupies it and alters it – even slower than the economy and the politics that so strongly affect it. In general, architecture takes time to embrace change, it needs manifestoes or paradigm shifts to proclaim its innovation, which are clamorously announced but then are slowly, gradually and often only partially enacted.

Keywords

• Space – time – speed / Spazio – tempo – velocità
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