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Papers by Augustin Ioan
Diakrisis, Jul 31, 2022
The zero-moment of an architectural undertaking precedes and the final one postpones the conventi... more The zero-moment of an architectural undertaking precedes and the final one postpones the conventional moments of building and demolition. This preusage of the material and of the site turn the 'birth' of the house into a rather vague moment. In the numerous makings there exist prior makings, and sites often appear to be palimpsests, layer upon layer, erasure upon erasure. This manner of approaching the question of the temporal 'sponginess' of architecture recalls the question concerning the beginnings of architecture. In this chain of fertile 'blackouts', the 'origin' of architecture ceases to be the inaugural moment still sought to this day: in a making there exist prior makings, and in an unmaking there endures the chance of future lives, at least in principle. Moreover, the question 'when?' deserves another, probably more fertile for the economy of this text: 'For how long?'
Études Balkaniques-Cahiers Pierre Belon, 2005
Martor : Revista de Antropoligie a Muzeului Taranului Roman (2005-), 2017
The text deals with the much debated question of renewal in contemporary Orthodox Christian archi... more The text deals with the much debated question of renewal in contemporary Orthodox Christian architecture, a question that accompanied a wave of more than twenty years of building new churches in existing cities and villages in Romania after the fall of communism in 1989. Should they follow the post Vatican II trend of aggiornamento in Catholic architecture and update the traditional and regional building models? The answer the text offers tentatively is retrofuturism, a radical way of renewing the language of sacred spaces within the core prescriptions of tradition. In the process, the author gives two examples of how this might work.
SAJ. Serbian architectural journal, 2010
My paper describes the grounds and the boundaries of theory, particularly of architectural theory... more My paper describes the grounds and the boundaries of theory, particularly of architectural theory. From the etimology of the word theoria to its definitions, one analyzes most of its implications, from "observed practice" to critical objects, i.e. built versions of current spatial concepts.
Our paper presents a different approach to the volleyball history by using a social point of view... more Our paper presents a different approach to the volleyball history by using a social point of view. Between 1946 and 1981 Romanian volleyball acquired remarkable results at European and World Championships, and in Olympic Games. We can say that the volleyball design, from the beginning, as a "white collar" sport, has kept this particularity over the years. Between 1946 and 1981 we counted 9 professions (engineer, officer, teacher, jurist, lawyer, doctor, coach, student, and technician). The engineers were always present in the national team, and teachers missed only in 1949. Since 1966, there have not been doctors in the national team and starting with 1967 officers (army and police) has become a majority. Using a descriptive qualitative research method we present the professional evolution of national volleyball teams' components in communist period. We intend to point and to link volleyball data with political and social transformations of our country between the firs...
The text works on time representation in architecture, arguing in favor of the building-as-proces... more The text works on time representation in architecture, arguing in favor of the building-as-process attitude towards construction, as a way to incorporate time into the making and the unmaking of edifices. The phenomenology of composing and decomposing the built matter comes into being—with a whole range of procedures explained in the text—as a way to give time to our lives and places them as co-present archives against the background of the time–space continuum, which, in its turn, becomes visible when built into architecture.
Zwischen imperialer Kulisse und urbaner Neubesetzung. Das Wiener "Hofburg-Museums-Quartier" und der internationale Kontext
The GeoJournal Library
When you have an empty space and you fill it, it does not mean that you have eliminated the void.... more When you have an empty space and you fill it, it does not mean that you have eliminated the void. You can fill the space and create more void than if you had not built at all. Daniel Libeskind 1
Memory, Humanity, and Meaning
East Central Europe, 2002
Southeastern Europe, 2002
NATION AND NATIONAL IDEOLOGY PAST, PRESENT …
288 Qu'est-ce que c'est que l'architecture «au spécifique national» et comment se ... more 288 Qu'est-ce que c'est que l'architecture «au spécifique national» et comment se révèle-t-elle? AUGUSTIN IOAN Il n'existe pas de véritable «architecture au spécifique national1». Celle-ci n'est pas un élément chimique existant à l'état pur dans un tableau ...
Teme şi dificultăţi ale relaţiei dintre filosofie şi …, 1999
Dilema Veche, Anul VI, 2009
Diakrisis, Jul 31, 2022
The zero-moment of an architectural undertaking precedes and the final one postpones the conventi... more The zero-moment of an architectural undertaking precedes and the final one postpones the conventional moments of building and demolition. This preusage of the material and of the site turn the 'birth' of the house into a rather vague moment. In the numerous makings there exist prior makings, and sites often appear to be palimpsests, layer upon layer, erasure upon erasure. This manner of approaching the question of the temporal 'sponginess' of architecture recalls the question concerning the beginnings of architecture. In this chain of fertile 'blackouts', the 'origin' of architecture ceases to be the inaugural moment still sought to this day: in a making there exist prior makings, and in an unmaking there endures the chance of future lives, at least in principle. Moreover, the question 'when?' deserves another, probably more fertile for the economy of this text: 'For how long?'
Études Balkaniques-Cahiers Pierre Belon, 2005
Martor : Revista de Antropoligie a Muzeului Taranului Roman (2005-), 2017
The text deals with the much debated question of renewal in contemporary Orthodox Christian archi... more The text deals with the much debated question of renewal in contemporary Orthodox Christian architecture, a question that accompanied a wave of more than twenty years of building new churches in existing cities and villages in Romania after the fall of communism in 1989. Should they follow the post Vatican II trend of aggiornamento in Catholic architecture and update the traditional and regional building models? The answer the text offers tentatively is retrofuturism, a radical way of renewing the language of sacred spaces within the core prescriptions of tradition. In the process, the author gives two examples of how this might work.
SAJ. Serbian architectural journal, 2010
My paper describes the grounds and the boundaries of theory, particularly of architectural theory... more My paper describes the grounds and the boundaries of theory, particularly of architectural theory. From the etimology of the word theoria to its definitions, one analyzes most of its implications, from "observed practice" to critical objects, i.e. built versions of current spatial concepts.
Our paper presents a different approach to the volleyball history by using a social point of view... more Our paper presents a different approach to the volleyball history by using a social point of view. Between 1946 and 1981 Romanian volleyball acquired remarkable results at European and World Championships, and in Olympic Games. We can say that the volleyball design, from the beginning, as a "white collar" sport, has kept this particularity over the years. Between 1946 and 1981 we counted 9 professions (engineer, officer, teacher, jurist, lawyer, doctor, coach, student, and technician). The engineers were always present in the national team, and teachers missed only in 1949. Since 1966, there have not been doctors in the national team and starting with 1967 officers (army and police) has become a majority. Using a descriptive qualitative research method we present the professional evolution of national volleyball teams' components in communist period. We intend to point and to link volleyball data with political and social transformations of our country between the firs...
The text works on time representation in architecture, arguing in favor of the building-as-proces... more The text works on time representation in architecture, arguing in favor of the building-as-process attitude towards construction, as a way to incorporate time into the making and the unmaking of edifices. The phenomenology of composing and decomposing the built matter comes into being—with a whole range of procedures explained in the text—as a way to give time to our lives and places them as co-present archives against the background of the time–space continuum, which, in its turn, becomes visible when built into architecture.
Zwischen imperialer Kulisse und urbaner Neubesetzung. Das Wiener "Hofburg-Museums-Quartier" und der internationale Kontext
The GeoJournal Library
When you have an empty space and you fill it, it does not mean that you have eliminated the void.... more When you have an empty space and you fill it, it does not mean that you have eliminated the void. You can fill the space and create more void than if you had not built at all. Daniel Libeskind 1
Memory, Humanity, and Meaning
East Central Europe, 2002
Southeastern Europe, 2002
NATION AND NATIONAL IDEOLOGY PAST, PRESENT …
288 Qu'est-ce que c'est que l'architecture «au spécifique national» et comment se ... more 288 Qu'est-ce que c'est que l'architecture «au spécifique national» et comment se révèle-t-elle? AUGUSTIN IOAN Il n'existe pas de véritable «architecture au spécifique national1». Celle-ci n'est pas un élément chimique existant à l'état pur dans un tableau ...
Teme şi dificultăţi ale relaţiei dintre filosofie şi …, 1999
Dilema Veche, Anul VI, 2009