Belief
Progress
Explore in the Atlas →The shared modern belief that human history moves, or ought to move, toward improvement through reason, science and technology. A core value of the discourse of modernity, the idea of progress legitimates demolition and renewal, the cult of the new in architecture and the framing of the future as something to be engineered. It is contested by critiques of developmentalism, ecological limits and decolonial thought.
Meaning Time Knowledge
Details
- Register
- Instituted
Classifications
- Holder
- Communal intergenerational
- Source of authority
- Reason
- Subject
- Human centred
- Political position
- Hegemonic
- Degree of codification
- Pattern based
- Mode of transmission
- Text drawing
- Knowledge type
- Propositional
- Epistemic cluster
- Western philosophical
Referenced by
- Modernity legitimates
Sources
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Cite this entry
First published May 2026Last revised Jul 2026
CLAD. "Progress." Atlas of Architectural Thought. CLAD, 2026. https://www.cl-ad.com.au/research/atlas/belief/progress/. Accessed July 17, 2026.