"This chapter traces the intellectual biography of Royston Landau (1927–2001), who ran the Graduate School of the Architectural Association (London) from 1974–93. It highlights Landau’s merits in adopting contemporary advances in the philosophy of science to architectural discourse — an agenda...

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1. Verfasser:	Cepl, Jasper 1973- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	2021
Schlagworte:	Landau, Royston > 1927-2001 Lakatos, Imre > 1922-1974 Popper, Karl R. > 1902-1994 Architekturtheorie Architektur
Zusammenfassung:	"This chapter traces the intellectual biography of Royston Landau (1927–2001), who ran the Graduate School of the Architectural Association (London) from 1974–93. It highlights Landau’s merits in adopting contemporary advances in the philosophy of science to architectural discourse — an agenda he developed in the beginning of the 1960s, when he joined forces with Stanford Anderson who introduced him the thinking of Karl Popper. He became one of the most fervent promoters of the latter’s ideas, and in particular of their further development in the work of Imre Lakatos. Landau adopted Lakatos’s "methodology of scientific research programmes" and, in what he occasionally dubbed "positional analysis", used Lakatos’s model to clarify how architects set up their agendas. The chapter more closely examines this transfer and reproposes Landau’s approach as a useful tool for understanding contemporary architecture and its recent history."
Beschreibung:	Illustrationen
ISBN:	978-1-3501-5317-2