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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.
Space between Philosophy and Architecture Derzawi 2021 12 23 Minor editings
Understanding space is one of the main components that construct any architect's/artist's process to produce designs. It could be said that the majority of contemporary minds were moulded in the cartesian emblem; The Contemporary Architect comprehends Space as Descartes represented it to Humanity. On the other side, another narrative is going on, the traditionalist narrative; Traditionalist Architect has another version of understanding Space that differs from the mainstream understanding of Space. Space will be discussed and elaborated from multi-points of perspective, Starting from the Greek philosophy, passing by the Islamic philosophy, and ending with the Enlightenment Philosophy. The impact of this understanding on the architectural design process will be tackled as well.
On the relationship between philosophy and architecture, recent and not so recent. To be pub. in Torino, Italy.
Understanding Architecture : Transforming Philosophy and Vocabulary into Architectural Marvels
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JOURNAL OF THE INDIAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS showcasing the changes which human race has faced. Since, decade architecture is relatively ignored by philosophers and is largely unsuccessful to draw persistent, detailed attention when compared with other art forms such as film or comic. Even today, principally ancient art forms are livelier and have philosophers focus them rather than architecture. Further, some philosophers have even dabbled in architectural projects: Dewey worked on the Chicago Laboratory School, Wittgenstein took part in designing a house for his sister, and Bentham sketched the Panoptic on design as a plan for prison reform. Architecture has existed since the recognition of civilization with its language analogy being as old as Vitruvius has flourished through the stages of development of human ABSTRACT : Architecture has existed since the recognition of civilization and its language analogy is at least as old as Vitruvius. Architecture and the human sciences such as philosophy, psychology, sociology etc. have always shared common interfaces leaving significant impersonation on each other. Architecture is not just an art but it is the reflection of social and cultural values of a society. Thus, through architecture philosophy is represented whereas philosophy is adopted by architecture for creating an edifice which showcases the prevailing human nature and need. This article offers an overview of concerns in the philosophy of architecture. Essential issues include introductory matters regarding the nature of architecture i.e. a. What kinds of objects are architectural, and what is it defined domain. b. Three Aspects-Beauty, structure and utility defining architecture and further dimensions may include space, sustainability, psychological or social features. Through this article, architectural status of various civilisations is discussed keeping in mind the philosophy and vocabulary of architecture. Renaissance enhanced the status of man in society and introduced Anthropometry in architecture. The Industrial Revolution was another of those extraordinary jumps which aid in erecting the high rise steel structure by using new building materials like cast iron, steel, glass, etc. Further, in the late of 1950s, boredom in architectural structure and look provokes distortion of regular architectural elements and objects calling this style deconstructivism. 'Mankind living and interacting with our environment in a way that can continue' lead to the evolution of a new but established thought viewed as Sustainable Architecture. In short, the paper is an approach to discuss about the philosophy and terms used by architects through their expedition from prehistoric times to the sustainability era.
Schwarte Prospect for the philosophy of architecture, KHOREIN 2023 I 2
Philosophy deals with aspects of architecture cannot be grasped by the established methods of history of art and theory of architecture, and proposes approaches which can help elucidate the key concepts of architecture, but also aethetic, ethical or social dimensions. My paper tries to sketch the scope of the questions architectural philosophy asks and give a short genealogy of its emergence. Furthermore, it argues for a specifically materialist understanding of the way in which architecture and philosophy correlate.
ARCHITECTURE & PHILOSOPHY: THOUGHTS ON BUILDING
It is a legitimate assertion that most major figures who have shaped the course of architecture can be described as "theoreticians who build." What distinguishes these architects from their architect colleagues of lesser status is the philosophical apparatus they have apprehended and made subject to their disposition. Meuron, Rem Koolhass, to name an incomplete list of important architects of the last forty years and fit the description of "theoretician who builds" particularly well, have been weaving philosophical and architectural thought with their built work. Idea and object are two sides of the same coin. In other words, good architects are in full intellectual command of what they are designing.
ARCH 630 | Philosophy of Architecture and Design (Graduate Course, Fall 2022)
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Across culture and time, architects have interrogated the built environment and their role in shaping it. Questions of artistic agency, political power, social control, and cultural preservation all contribute to the fundamental debate of what architecture is—and is for. This syllabus aims to introduce students to the expansive theory, practice, and study of architecture. At once an examination of disciplinary history and theory, this course will investigate the diverse ways architects have understood their world (and situated their profession within it) by actively negotiating between written ideas, drawings, and built projects. To do so, this syllabus adopts an explicitly transnational perspective, challenging the Euro-American canon of architectural theory by presenting it as just one tradition amongst a range of cultural, geographic, and historical perspectives. Through exposure to a range of thinkers, students will be able to consider their own work within a diverse spectrum of theories concerning architecture, urbanism, and space.
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“Architecture is a thoughtful making of space” -- Louis I. Kahn If theories are a set of systems or suppositions that undergird how a certain thing operates, the theory of architecture, according to the architect Louis I. Kahn, must entail a thoughtful making of space. So, what then constitutes a “thoughtful making of space?” And a thoughtful making of space for whom? Many scholars, architects and thinkers have been trying to answer this question. The fundamental problem with answering this question lies in the nature of architecture as a “practical” rather than a theoretical discipline. What does it mean for space to be thoughtfully made – comfort, function, and aesthetics? All of these qualities are not merely architectural: Comfortable buildings can be designed by engineers who understand conventional and artificial ventilation; in a similar way, aesthetic edifices only need to be designed by those trained in the fine arts of composition and motif replication. Is there mere theory of architecture? It is an accepted norm that architects “make” things -- buildings, spaces, landscapes; yet, the difference between “simply making something” and “thoughtfully making something” is enormous. Unlike the natural sciences or mathematics, architectural can hardly be undergirded, explained, or experienced by a set of fixed ideas or suppositions. As the historian and theorist Stanford Anderson argues, architecture is “quasi-autonomous,” which may explain why any attempts to see architecture as something else often, if not always, fail. The prime example being that any architectural approaches that end, stylistically, with “-ism,” such as modernism, postmodernism, deconstructionism, to name a few. In this course, we will focus on this very quasi-autonomous quality of architecture in its capacity to “make space” thoughtfully.” In the spirit of skepticism, we will investigate the claims that (a) architectural theory exists and (b) the central elements of such claims are humans and their social relations. By oscillating between reading closely related ideas and oppositional ideas, students will be exposed to a selected range of concepts developed by philosophers, historians, and social theorists in their attempts to come to terms with what they believe to be architecture. These attempts are something we may call “architectural theory.” Chronologically, we will examine socio-cultural ideas in which architecture plays a role as either the source or the outcome. In this course, we will seek to understand architectural theory through the exploration of the economic, political, and cultural roles of architecture. Two sets of readings will be introduced for each topic: classic theoretical and philosophical writings, and writings specific to architecture.
The construction of architecture
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This paper will proceed, via a brief discussion of Hans-Georg Gadamer's anti-aesthetics of architecture, to outline why the architectural metaphor in philosophy is never simply a metaphor, using as a guide the critique of origins and sources contained in Jacques Derrida's essay Qual Quelle. The question will be raised as to whether the tools and structures of philosophy, such as the difference between materiality and non-materiality, abstract thought and practice, are entirely adequate to architectural debate; and whether, in questioning these structures, it is possible to address Bataille's critique of architecture (as interpreted in Denis Hollier's Against Architecture) as the expression of pre-existing social order and power. Tim Gough MA(Cantab) DipArch The Paper Itself What is going to happen between us? Is this paper-which has just begun-a textual object to be communicated to you, a receptive subject? Is this "textual object" an expression of the thoughts of another "subject", namely the one who reads it to you now? Is the receptive subject one, or are they many; and if the latter, what of the communication between them? Or shall we regard what happens between us in a different light-taking a different tack? Could we say instead that the avowedly metaphysical presupposition of subject and object, communication and expression, are simply abstractions from a primary reality-a reality which has an entirely different character? Accepting that the conceptual apparatus of subject and object has its place and use, we would nonetheless question-indeed challenge-a philosophy or theory which would give it pride of place or-what's worse-leave it unquestioned.