#7 MODERN HERITAGES

Architecture and Desire

Why the talk is inspiring?

Instead of considering the technical aspects of architecture, the speaker will consider the influence of psychological laws on the esthetical choices of the architect. The statement will be illustrated by the result of the speakers experience and travels.

26
April
2012

Speaker

Frédéric Chaubin [FR]

How the speaker is exceptional?

Editor of the lifestyle magazine Citizen K. The photographer has brought to the acknowledgement of an international audience the most outstanding buildings erected in the last twenty years of the Soviet Union.

RECOMMENDS TO READ

Things Hidden since the Foundation of the World

René Girard

Why the book is worth reading?

Through his theory of “mimetic desire” and “mimetic violence” the philosopher René Girard brings a theoretical description of the impulses that feed personal and collective intellectual productions.