104th ACSA Annual Meeting Proceedings, Shaping New Knowledges

Inventing History

Annual Meeting Proceedings

Author(s): Liane Hancock

This is a story about the invention of history to substantiate the future. At its center isthe exploitation of a graphic device to validate the adoption of an entirely new buildingmaterial, not once but twice, and a trope which influenced the birth of the modernistcity. This deceit was entirely in the service of the advancement of architecture, tothe profit of a few very motivated men. Today, this device continues to promulgatea narrative that filters the truth.

Volume Editors
Robert Corser & Sharon Haar

ISBN
978-1-944214-03-6