Harman , Graham
The Return of Beauty: Driving a Wedge Between Objects and Qualities
- Vol 89, Issue 5 : (26-29 p.)
Object‐oriented ontology (OOO) has been gaining traction in architectural education in recent years, as a way of seeing the world not anthropocentrically, but instead making a distinction between objects and their latent bundles of qualities. OOO's key author, philosopher Graham Harman, Distinguished Professor at the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI‐Arc), outlines its basic tenets and its relationship to contemporary notions of architectural beauty.