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Vol. 7 (2) / February 2020
Meta(re)presentations
Antonis Moras // Department of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering, Aristotle Uni- versity of Thessaloniki (AUTh)
Abstract
This essay reviews the key literature on the notion of metarepresentations in fields beyond architecture and then attempts a rereading of the conception of representa- tions in the architectural discipline.
Two main categories of metarepresentations in architecture are proposed and de- pend on their effect on thinking representations; Content and context aware me- tarepresentations
Content aware metarepresentations are based on a value system and can be divided in two categories. The first one is characterized by standardization and selfreferential- ity while the other one is structured as criticism by enabling referencing and quoting within content. Characteristic examples are modern and postmodern architecture. Context aware metarepresentations resemble the condition of monitoring a system by focusing on the relations between the different parts that temporarily constitute it as such. Characteristic examples are post-cybernetic and post-digital architectures.
Keywords
content awareness; context awareness; representation; metarepresentation; moni- toring; control;
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