The social construction of "authenticity" in architecture. A cultural sociology of practices of judgement in urban built space

该项目位于文化社会学的领域，分析了当代城市建筑中“真实性”的社会建设实践。这一研究问题的背景是自20世纪80年代和90年代以来，西方城市在真正的“文化”品质(体验价值、消费、旅游价值等)方面发生了转变的深刻过程，即城市“文化再生”的深刻过程。在这种背景下，建筑的建成空间正在转移到相互冲突的社会评估实践的中心。该项目认为，当代社会对城市空间建筑维度的评估--无论是专家还是日常用户--越来越多地围绕着“真实性”的真正文化价值展开。求助于“真实的”似乎指的是某种自然的东西，指的是“做得好”的内在衡量标准--然而，事实上，这些判断是基于复杂的、经常有争议的社会标准，即什么是真实的，什么是不真实的。因此，该项目位于新成立的建筑社会学、城市社会学和审判实践社会学的交叉点上。它的社会理论背景是一种社会实践理论。围绕建筑空间评估标准的冲突正在通过两个案例研究进行探讨：1)第一个案例研究涉及促使建筑公司专业建筑师进行建筑“设计”的标准；2)第二个案例研究涉及联合国教科文组织“制造”真实性及其将建筑评为“世界文化遗产”的批判性论述。该项目采用了参与者观察、访谈、话语分析和文献研究等定性方法，并运用了照片启发和认知或心理导图的视觉方法。

Situated in the field of a sociology of culture, the project analyses contemporary practices of the social construction of "authenticity" in urban architecture. The background of this research question is the profound processes of "cultural regeneration", of a "culturalisation" of the urban since the 1980s and 90s, in the course of which Western cities are transformed in terms of their genuinely "cultural" qualities (experience value, consumption, touristic value etc.). In this context, the built space of architecture is shifting into the centre of conflicting social practices of evaluation. The project contends that contemporary social evaluation of the architectural dimension of urban space - by experts and everyday users alike - increasingly revolves around the genuinely cultural value of "authenticity". The recourse to the "authentic" seems to refer to something natural, to a immanent measure of the "well done" - in fact, however, these judgements are based upon complex and often contested social criteria of what counts as authentic and as inauthentic. The project thus is situated at the point of intersection of the - newly founded - sociology of architecture, urban sociology and a sociology of the practices of judgment. Its social-theoretical background is a theory of social practices.The conflicts around the criteria for the evaluation of built space are being explored in two case studies: 1) The first case study deals with the criteria motivating the "design" of architecture on the part of professional architects in architectural firms; 2) The second case study deals with the critical discourses of "making" authenticity on the part of the UNESCO and its awarding of architecture as "world cultural heritage". The project draws on qualitative methods such as participant observation, interviews, discourse analysis and documentary research, besides visual methods of photo elicitation and cognitive or mental mapping are applied.