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Criticism in the absence of criticism
Año:2014
Áreas de investigación
  • Arquitectura
Datos
Descripción
Criticism is defined as the examination and judgment about someone or something. This definition includes, at first, an analytical task -with a particular methodology related to it- and, at second, a synthetic activity, translated into a value judgment on what is previously analyzed. Criticism can be done in different ways and depths: from the basic critical thinking -essentially descriptive- to the most truthful one ?the poetic criticism-, that transcends pure description or analysis and refers itself to the internal coherence of the object. Any criticism that seeks to reduce the distance to the truth will address both to the intrinsic object relationships -or own laws- and to the extrinsic ones. Furthermore, an objective criticism provides a knowledge of the object regardless of the observer or frame of reference. This provides an effective method and a guaranteed way to approach to the knowledge of the object. Does this mean that without a regular critical method no criticism is undertaken? The proposal of this paper is to explain how a critical thought can be undertaken in the absence of criticism, in which there is no explicit value judgment. Taking the hypothesis that there is criticism in the absence of criticism, an architectural work ?either being a building, a writing on architecture, etc.- that implies a tacit criticism could work on two levels: as a practical result ?built, literary, etc.- and as a critical thought. The hypothesis proposes that such duality, criticism and practice, may come together in a single work. Although not in any. The existence of criticism in the absence of criticism will depend on the nature of the object and, with no doubt, on the speaker and receiver. At first glance, the guarantees provided by this criticism in the absence of criticism seem less tan through the orthodox one, in which the subject is the weakest part of the chain. However, the absence of explicit value judgment can lead to a series of stimuli ?coherency, aesthetic, recreational or other- that, in certain contexts, do more viable the approach to the knowledge than through the conventional method. Key words: criticism, tacit criticism, absence of criticism.
Internacional
Si
Nombre congreso
Critic-all I International Conference on Architectural Design & Criticism
Tipo de participación
960
Lugar del congreso
Madrid
Revisores
Si
ISBN o ISSN
978-84-697-0424-0
DOI
Fecha inicio congreso
12/06/2014
Fecha fin congreso
14/06/2014
Desde la página
881
Hasta la página
889
Título de las actas
Critic-all I International Conference on Architectural Design & Criticism Actas
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Participantes
  • Autor: Marta Pastor Estebanez UPM
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  • Creador: Grupo de Investigación: Crítica Arquitectónica