The Techno-aesthetical Architectural Dilemma: Paradigmatic Histories of Reinforced Concrete
The Techno-aesthetical Architectural Dilemma: Paradigmatic Histories of Reinforced Concrete

Summary/Abstract: The debate on the double dialectic Architecture-Aesthetics / Architecture-Ethics is old but it takes on urgency in the context of the existential stakes of the Anthropocene. This age is marked by the increasingly radical transformation of the contemporary world, which conforms to the evolution of a techno-natural environment whose new challenges lead us to question the complexity of our very connection to the world. These tensions have led to the creation of a chiasmus between the operative and the sensitive in architecture. While the operative dimension faces the urgent challenge of handling architecture’s impact on nature and the environment, the sensitive one seems to turn into a matter of secondary importance at best and is almost ethically incriminated. This often leads to an abstraction of the importance of aesthetics in the architectural creation process, which is then reduced to its capacity of providing an answer to ethical problems.

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