A Nocturnal History of Architecture crafts the challenges of creative tools

the challenges of creative tools

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Ibram Xolani Kendi

A Nocturnal History of Architecture crafts the challenges of creative toolsFor centuries, architectural theory, discourse, and agency have been based on diurnal and solar paradigms. References to the night in Vitruvius De architectura are residual; they are similarly scarce in the most influential Renaissance treatises by Alberti or Palladio. It was not until the nineteenth and twentieth centuries that the invention and institutionalization of electric light in private and public spaces gradually transformed the agency of