Starting from the fundamental premise that references are essential for all cultural techniques, the contributors to this volume elaborate architecture’s ambivalent tension between reference and contemporaneity, its central role in both architectural production and discourse. The issues surrounding contemporaneity do not pertain to a condition, but to an agenda – one where references are selected according to interests and adapted to present needs. This perspective enriches existing conceptions of references as tools of design economy, imitation, and historicization by tying them more explicitly to contemporary agendas than has been done before.

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Dietrich Erben (Prof. Dr. phil. habil.), geb. 1961, ist Inhaber des Lehrstuhls f�r Theorie und Geschichte von Architektur, Kunst und Design an der Technischen Universit�t M�nchen. Er war Stipendiat des Kunsthistorischen Institutes/Max-Planck-Institut in Florenz und der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft. Seine Forschungsschwerpunkte liegen in der Architektur- und Kunstgeschichte seit der Fr�hen Neuzeit, in der Architekturtheorie, der politischen Ikonographie und Geschichte der internationalen Kunstbeziehungen.

Carsten Ruhl (Prof. Dr. phil. habil.) ist Professor f�r Architekturgeschichte an der Goethe-Universit�t Frankfurt am Main, Gr�ndungsmitglied des Center for Critical Studies in Architecture (CCSA) und einer der beiden Leiter des DFG-Forschungsclusters �Organizing Architectures�. Seine Forschungsschwerpunkte sind Geschichte und Theorie der Architektur, speziell interdisziplin�re Verbindungen zwischen Architektur- und Sozialgeschichte, sowie Soziologie, Medienwissenschaft und Philosophie.

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