Architecture as Absolute: Reviewing Aristotle’s Metaphysics of Architecture (original) (raw)
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International Journal of Architecture, Engineering and Construction, 2016
The consequential philosophical yearning and classical architecture had acquired an exceptional significance during the culmination of ancient Greek world despite all their conflicts and crisis; which creations are still contextual. In this interdisciplinary study, an estimated ‗theory' and ‗hypothesizing' took the major motivating tributary to descend a relation between the modalities of classical philosophy and theory of aesthetics associated with ancient Greek architecture. Thus discourses from philosophy, humanities and art theories regarding Greek architectural features are brought within reach. For that, Visual, material, construction and stylistic analysis of Greek architecture have constructed the ‗What and How' of the discourse while the iconographic discussions will lead us to the answers of ‗Why'. Some supportive analyses of socio-political history, text and biographies are also deliberated to correlate and prove the evidences. Who knows, Architecture might be the memento of Greek metaphysical manifestation: where the then Greek religion, patronization form power, economy, cultural exchange, humane thought and overall, their philosophy translated into hoary stones-something which is still a mystery. Such hypotheses will distillate that how influential were these deep-sighted thoughts and made them able to constituent all these white carving-stone poetry. The philosophical responsiveness might have sprouted from the immanent interrogations in architecture through form, function and space; as a speculation of external and transcendental questions to search the ‗Ideal'. The possible coherence of architecture with philosophy without any distinct horizon in-between, which is less focused earlier, designates the originality of this dissertation.
A Philosophical Notes on Theoretical Basis of Architecture
Qzvin: Jahade Daneshgahi, 2018
The topics of this book are compiled in six main chapters: 1. Theoretical and philosophical discourse analysis of architecture 2. Architecture and Culture 3. Cognition, reading and understanding architectural works 4. Nature and architecture 5. The process of architectural design and place creation 6. Analyzing the views of thinkers and architects
This text is the result of an interdisciplinary reflection that tends to lay the foundations for a new concept of architecture, a new architectural paradigm. In light of the transformations occurring at an increasingly rapid pace in the world of science, the sectors of classical knowledge must review their structure and role. In this context, to rediscover its role and cultural meaning, architecture must review its position within the process of transformation of knowledge for which it must somehow account. In other words, to do this, architecture must re-establish the basic assumptions and redefine its specific universe of discourse. Author Graduated in Architecture in the 1970s, he taught at the Italian faculties of Architecture in Rome (Chair of architectural composition, years 73-77) and Naples (Institute of architectural methodology, years 82-83 and 2004) as assistant-presenter of seminars, working on the themes of semiology, representation and design logic. He is currently an independent researcher and for many years has been involved in epistemological and cognitive research on architecture with investigations, currently under development, with fMRI techniques aimed at analyzing the response of the human brain towards architecture.
ARCHITECTURAL PHILOSOPHICAL TERM FROM PRE-SOCRATIC TO ENLIGHTENMENT
IAEME, 2019
The philosophical term is considers as a basic intellectual background of architecture throughout history, but the architectural theories that touched on this subject haven't been diagnosed this term clearly, so I bring this paper to diagnose this term in philosophical architectural knowledge through the epochs of time, what gives this paper an importance in the study of architectural theories is disintegrate the knowledge confusion about this term and thus will be the beginning for more accurately topics that related to what the philosophical-architecture term is. The problem of the current research has been represented by the lack of studies with regard to essence of the philosophical-architectural term and it's employ in architecture. The objective of the study was defined in an attempt to discover the philosophical-architecture term and its mechanism employed in architecture. To achieve this goal the structural approach in building knowledge about the philosophical-architecture term has been adopted according to the epochs of time starting from the Pre-Socratic era down to Present era, that gives a high holistic to this study in the diagnosis of the philosophical-architecture term. This study is dividing into two main stages, first is covering the Pre-Socratic to the Enlightenment era, the subsequent study is covering modernism to the present era.
Philosophy of Architecture and Architectonics
2016
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A Phenomenological Approach Upon The Essence of Architectural Production
IJARR, 2018
The notion of "being" is known as one of the initial problems of philosophy. Depending on its structure and existence, the architectural object has a convenient position to be reviewed in this context. From Plato to present, the question of existence has changed its focus from the universe to the individual, and the attempt to define the answers continues in a dynamic way. Architecture can carry existential concerns within itself as an object produced by a subject in the current philosophical system in which the acquisition of knowledge evolved from mental processes to bodily processes in the period between Kant and Merlau-Ponty. From this point of view, it is possible to talk about the concept of body in philosophical foundation as existentially as well as the body of architectural structure. This paper searches the possibility to make an existential reading through the reviewing of architectural products. The basis of the study is the assumption that the architect's design decisions and the architectural object itself can create an existential posture and this phenomenon can resist in time with the awareness of the architect. In this regard, this paper attempts to discuss the selected works of Carlo Scarpa as an architectural discourse through phenomenological approaches. INTRODUCTION Philosophy and architecture have been in a strong relationship since the beginning of searching the meanings of self and the universe. Due to its natural structure, the architectural act is fed physically and conceptually from all other fields of knowledge and art. In this manner philosophical discourses are continuous tools for the forms of expression in architectural production. With the help of philosophical texts, the conceptual and intellectual approaches can be taken from the process of comprehension and interpretation of the architectural work by the state of the architect at the stage of production and the position of the experienced individual against the space or structure.
A GENUINE ORIGIN AND LANGUAGE FOR THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLES OF ARCHITECTURE
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Today, architectural theories are replaced by instant discoursive positions, which are mainly overwhelmed by a crisis of meaning and legitimacy. The examination of the history of architectural theories showed that those instant positions are based on the architectural theories of the 18th century. The reverse-chronological investigation of the theories of the 18th century has revealed the emancipation of architecture from its metaphysic knowledge, which distanced the theory from its origins dissociatively, in the 17th century as the reason that crisis. That knowledge was defining the particulars of architectural theory, such as origin, meaning, character, taste, and form from antiquity to the late 17th century. The research showed that those particulars constitute the universals of architecture. Their genuine origin and language defining them were structured by Vitruvius in the 1st century BC on the basis of six essential concepts: order, arrangement, symmetry, eurhythmy, propriety and economy. Those concepts have been revisited and redefined in order to reflect upon the domain itself by means of its own terminology, rather than imported concepts. This reflection, considered as a further study, would proceed towards solid and valid architectural theories corresponding the crisis of meaning and legitimacy.
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s Eupalinos ou l'architecte, Socrates and Phaedrus encounter each other in the afterlife where their conversation takes them to the subject of architecture, and a certain Eupalinos, a master architect whom Phaedrus had known. Phaedrus shares with Socrates the contents of his discussions with Eupalinos regarding the art of architecture, its perfection, and the concern for order that occupied this architect's mind. This discussion of the architect's knowledge and skills and his evident love of his art, evoked a vivid memory in Socrates who then recounted to Phaedrus an event from his youth which had a pivotal significance in his life. Socrates had been walking by the sea when a mysterious object that had washed ashore attracted his attention. Upon examination, the partially eroded object left Socrates unsure as to whether it was a product of nature or of human artifice. This uncertainty compelled him to reflect upon a number of themes: the object, the matter and the form; the indivisibility between the maker and the made; the principles that inform construction; can principles and the act of construction be separated? and what is the relation between the necessary and the beautiful? A difficult choice presented itself to the young Socrates who hesitated between becoming a philosopher or an architect, because he hesitated between to know and to build, between the philosopher that he will be and the architect that he never was. Socrates the philosopher confesses that he always held within him an incomplete architect.
SAJ - Serbian Architectural Journal, 2016
The paper focuses on the new field of philosophy of architecture in analytic tradition. The research presented in this paper is part of an ongoing doctoral research concerning the connection between ethics and aesthetics in architecture. The connection between architecture and philosophy is not a novelty. Architectural theory has always looked up to philosophy for inspiration but only recently philosophers have started to study architecture in detail. Architectural theory is still a field that is in search of a better conceptual frame after the failure of the theoretical premises of the Modern Movement and the rise of the "theory speak". Architecture's features as a public art ask for a certain amount of objectivity. The philosophy of architecture in analytic tradition can contribute to a more objective conceptual frame. The principal concerns are familiar to those acquainted with continental philosophy: What makes architecture special among the arts? What is the essen...