ARCHITECTS y MIMETIC RIVALRY

Humans are imitative beings. The imitation of preferred masters and forms is natural to artists and architects but also the root cau se of their conflicts and rivalries, leading to what René Girard has called mimetic rivalry . Architects y Mimetic Rivalry is a disc ussion of the effects of this broad yet unrecognized phenomenon on the architects and architecture of today. It is what architects h ave in common rather than what separates them that is at the root of their legendary quarrels. Architectural identities are shaped b y imitat...[Llegir més]