Weak architecture is linked to weak thought and weak ontology. The advancement of science and the questioning of god’s existence left its mark of modern architecture. The article explores the lack of absolute reference in modern architecture, what Nietzsche called “the death of God” and as Michel Foucault called it “loss of a ground”, and [...]
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The idea of ‘three fiction’ has influenced architecture since the fifteenth centaury. The three fictions are representation, reason and history. Representation is expressed in modernism by eliminating the ornamental features in any design. A column in a modernist school of thought is represented in a simple form and without the base and capital. The form [...]
