What Has Happened to Territory?

Antoine Picon (1)

1 LATTS - Laboratoire Techniques, Territoires et Sociétés

In the concluding article of the main section of this issue, Antoine Picon evokes the earlier meaning of territory for administrators, architects and engineers, as lands that were integrated into nations or colonies by the early modern European countries. Picon traces how 18th- and 19th-century perceptions of territory with an emphasis on administrative separation fed into an attitude of both distance and sensitivity to landscape, as exemplified by the Romantic movement in painting and literature; a heritage that continued into the 20th century in architecture with its emphasis on rationalisation

Keywords: Andries van Eertvelt; The Return to Amsterdam of the Fleet of the Dutch East India Company in 1599; c 17th century; Renaissance Italian and Hanseatic cities; bills of exchange; the Dutch East India Company; Fernand Braudel; Civilization and Capitalism; 15th-18th Century; ‘death of nature’; Caspar David Friedrich's Wanderer above a Sea of Fog; Jacob von Uexküll's notion of ‘Umwelt’; Manfredo Tafuri; Peter Sloterdijk; Gregory Bateson; Steps to an Ecology of Mind; Nicholas de Monchaux; Mitchell Schwarzer; Ali Rahim; David Gissen; Bruno Latour; Renzo Piano Building Workshop; Paul Klee Museum; Berne; Switzerland; 2005

Domains: Sociology

Antoine Picon. What Has Happened to Territory?. Architectural Design, 2010, 80 (3), pp.94-99. ⟨10.1002/ad.1081⟩. ⟨hal-01095388⟩