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It is a truism that change and the inevitability of change is one of the givens of human society, yet it remains one of the most difficult and most painful processes known to us. Whether it is brought about by the introduction of new ideas, new practices, or new technologies, the need to meet changing social or environmental conditions is constantly with us and, as the cliché suggests, is as inescapable as death and taxes.
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Frescura, F. (2016). Visual Cognition and the Struggle for the Soul of Architecture. In: Samuel, M.A., Dhunpath, R., Amin, N. (eds) Disrupting Higher Education Curriculum. Constructing Knowledge: Curriculum Studies in Action. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-896-9_5
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