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selfreferentiality. This as a result sustains the distance between architectural discipline and the ever-changing social ecologies. Architecture becomes a style and thus the architect is self-iden- tified as solely the custodian of a historical heritage, architecture conforms to the past as this is where it abstracts validation.
In the latter decades though the change in the sociocultural environment with the advent of the flow of capital and knowledge redefined our conception of boundaries, cities, countries beyond spatiality, language and even behavioral codes and ethics. The rapid expansion of the internet and the increase in the use of portable technologies is accompanied with the emergence of new media and the rapid increase in the production of knowledge. A new metarepresentation of ar- chitecture started to emerge that experiments with monitoring the relations within the system that it is connected. This metarepresentation is defined by contextual awareness and is practiced with an emphasis in the presence of design-thinking. This inscription in the field of ecologies that architecture is a part of constitutes an emerging meta-presence for both representations and practices of the discipline that put into doubt architecture’s self-referentiality and historical and theoretical constitution as an object.
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Meta(re)presentations
Antonis Moras