Architecture, Derrida and TAD
• Architecture, Derrida and TAD
This is a long video -- which was pending for a long time :-) It explains the linguistic concepts of the French philosopher and linguist, Jacques Derrida. His insight on linguistics, and the technique of deconstruction to understand written text is quite useful for all kinds of emergent meaning. I see lot of relevance to architecture; and how architecture can be represented.
This should be useful for architects, students of architecture, teachers of architecture and those interested in linguistics and philosophy.
It explains how some architects distorted Derrida's useful work and put some ill-thought philosophies such as "Post Modernism" and "Deconstructivism" It also connects Derrida's theories with fractals and how TAD represents architecture using a kind of iterative system similar to fractals
Knowledge of TAD is not required. This can serve as a nice conceptual intro to TAD
The goal of this talk is to invoke debates from fellow architects on how architecture ought to be represented, the responsibility of representation and why it is important not to get waylaid by feelings and emotions
