01. Discuss the limits of criticism.
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provides a meaningful starting point for a discussion on architecture criticism, opening up the object of criticism in its multiple layers in an era in which ‘criticism is infected by a paralysing self-doubt’. Of particular importance is his statement that, even if we agree that the critique of works of art or of architecture operates somewhat autonomously, ‘a certain osmotic process of influence is likely to occur’. The question is not if, but how critics would formulate something of a framework of assessing works of architecture in the broadest sense – interiors, buildings and cities – in a society that is perhaps no longer just agnostic, but to some degree desperate.
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Literary criticism usually sets out from an analysis and discussion of the most striking elements and obvious features of the work of an author. It then proceeds toward the interpretation of further characteristic traits and a systematic explanation of details such as key words, nodal images, etc. In the last instance it touches on the seemingly obscure aspects which, however significant they may be, appear to be solved only by some kind of speculation