Archinect - News2024-12-22T08:22:04-05:00https://archinect.com/news/article/141764344/should-architecture-strive-for-originality-can-it-ever-achieve-it
Should architecture strive for originality? Can it ever achieve it? Nicholas Korody2015-11-23T20:03:00-05:00>2019-01-05T12:31:03-05:00
<img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/83/83rk5pk1y6rcl02x.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>...the [Architectural Works Copyright Protection Act] is a [comparatively] recent development. Architecture shares certain myths with art that influence its commercial value, such as that of the singular author and singular work, but these are also relatively recent: Renaissance architects believed the peak of civilisation existed in antiquity, and so imitated ancient ruins.
The commercial and social value of “new” and “novel” and even “original” are, arguably, products of modernity.</p></em><br /><br /><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd">
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