Everyday Resistance

Abstract

This issue of “Ardeth” explores experiences of composition and recomposition of built space through subtle yet tenacious processes of transformation. Drawing from the call for papers, the fragility of architecture and architectural design – whether material, mechanical, chemical, cultural, or social – is understood here as a starting condition upon which to develop a theory grounded not in reaction to, but within, modernity itself.
The perspectives that view planet Earth as a finite system with limited resources – and the implications this has for the fragility of any drive toward progress – were consolidated culturally not only through the Club of Rome’s report on the limits to growth or the well-known work of biologist Rachel Carson (1962). The arguments that matured where early environmental movements gathered to protest against atomic bomb testing, already found resonance in the late 1950s theoretical reflections on technology.