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My purpose with this text is to recuperate the theme of the spatial condition to the field of architectural theory. The spatial condition has been in general a secondary protagonist in the theory of architecture where, traditionally, the aesthetic and technological appreciation of buildings has by far dominated over their appreciation as spatial structures endowed with symbolic and use values that come from the way space is experienced. This spatial dimension of architecture is acknowledged, and has its performance scrutinized, in the work of different authors, from the end of the nineteenth century on. The work presented in what follows aims at circumscribing what is specific in this architectural knowledge and, moreover, to show that the theories given by these authors present a conceptual convergence, and often coincidence, so configuring today a clearly identifiable line of research. Yet this review has not the ambition of exhausting the variety of literature that has dealt with this subject. In fact, more important than these authors is the way the concepts they have presented, during this last century, have become articulated in the formulation of a theory of space. Moreover the ambition here is to raise in the reader -architect, researcher or student -the curiosity for the knowledge about the way spatiality works in architecture.
The undefinable space of architecture
Conference: Theory for the Sake of the Theory: ARCHTHEO '11, 2011
It’s a possible assumption that today at the most of the architectural schools the concept of space is built as an anachronistic and quasi-homogeneous element. Especially through architectural history lessons and architectural design studios, the concept of space is being established with only traces of certain periods of the history of Western thought disregarding its complex and obscure nature. It’s also thought-provoking that in an educational system, introducing space as one of the integral parts of the discipline, there is a huge ambiguity and recklessness about the history and nature of the concept of space. It can be argued that after the intensive interest of architects to the concept of space between 1890-1970 and finally after the stabilization of the concept as a key stone of architecture, the discipline has begun to shift out of the spatial studies (excluding ‘place’ theories between 1970-1990). Although space has become the dominant paradigm particularly in social sciences with the spatial turn after 1980s, it seems like that this socio-political transition of the concept of space has not so much affected the architectural theory deep inside its epistemology. Herein it may play a role that in a Cartesian/capitalist direction matured and freezed epistemology of space of the architectural practice, which has to take part directly in the market being used by whether public or private sector as an economic/politic regulatory, is not exactly corresponding to the spatial approaches which were shifted from aesthetic to social, building critical thinking in subjects like social injustice or bio-politics and hence organizing directly or indirectly resistance against present power and political institutions. In order to trace the way how the concept of space positions itself inside the epistemology of architecture and how this position configurates the discipline, it must be asserted first that space is a historical (1980s) and spatial (Germany) early modern concept diffused into the discipline of architecture rather than being an essential part inherent to it. Therefore the concept of space in architecture has to be read as a historical phenomenon within Western history and in relation with modernity.
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International Journal of Architectural Engineering Technology, 2019
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