
#22 - Mark Foster Gage
Theory of Architecture
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The End of Humanism
Before the renaissance, it was god's job to understand things. Humanism is a re centering of the universe around the human. And this has been very good for science, for enlightenment, for architecture. It gave humans the ability to think about the world in the context of their own needs,. not god's needs. But with all the benefits that humanism brought, it also brought these after effects of essentially destroying the environment. So what happens when we don't put the human at the privileged centre of everything, but allow the human to have equal value to everything else? That has really profound consequences for architecture. If you're not only thinking about architecture as housing humans, you start to
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