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Tracing the Recent Success of Pragmatism in Architecture and its Practical Consequences for Architects’ Political Engagement

par Lefebvre, Pauline
Référence EAHN (European Architectural History Network) Second International Meeting (2: 2012-06-02: Bruxelles)
Publication Non publié, 2012-06-02

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This poster session is an occasion for me to present a cartography that traces the more or less recent success of “pragmatism” in architecture. This cartography considers occurrences in literature that explicitly claim a “pragmatist turn” or a “pragmatist legacy” in the architectural field. Labelled “pragmatist”, “post-critical”, “projective”, “communicational”, “ANT”, “agency” etc., these positions have in common a refocus on practice. However, they differ in many aspects, which allow drawing different fields in the “pragmatist landscape”, depending on the criteria taken into account (if and how the occurrence inherits from early pragmatist philosophy, the domain in which it appears, the respective quotations, the place and date of publication, etc.). This work positions itself as a recent and ongoing history of theoretical and philosophical legacies in architecture, focused on this claimed shift from a critical legacy to a pragmatist attitude. It aims to trace this conceptual displacement and its consequences, mainly for architects’ political engagement because it is the most sensitive issue in the controversy raised by such a shift.