Contingent Excess
This “visual essay” was written in response to an invitation to write a thousand word essay accompanied by one image. It addresses the definition, by the author, of architecture as an act of contingent excess. Without disagreeing with George Bataille’s understanding of excess as waste, I argue that,...
Main Author: | Catherine Ingraham |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Rosenberg & Sellier
2020-09-01
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Series: | Ardeth |
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Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/ardeth/1109 |
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