Space, Body, Architecture. Towards a Difficult Balance, in AR, 2022, Ljubljana (original) (raw)

AR / Architectural Research, 2022

Abstract

Space, Body, Architecture Renato Bocchi KEYWORDS: GEOMETRY, SPACE, BODY, CONTRAPPOSTO, CHIASMUS The essay intends to investigate about the difficult conjugation between the more "classical" space-body, characterized by Euclidean-Cartesian geometry and proportional metrics, and the "phenomenological" space-body, however present in the classical heritage, characterized from movement, tensions, from the alternation of gravity and fluctuation. This conjugation of ancient Apollonian and Dionysian ideals seems to propose a form of resistance, through the dialectic of opposites, even in contemporary artistic and architectural experiences. In fact, the proposed interpretative key intends to operate a comparative juxtaposition between artistic experiences - such as the "Contrapposto studies" by Bruce Nauman nowadays on display at Punta della Dogana in Venice or the interpretation of classical statuary through a choreographic and bodily expression performance by the stage director Virgilio Sieni, exhibited some years ago at the Prada Foundation in Milan - and the space research in architecture traceable in the museum halls themselves hosting those exhibitions, designed by Tadao Ando and Rem Koolhaas, or in seminal architectural works such as Steven Holl's Kiasma Museum in Helsinki.

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