Architecture and the Body, Science and Culture

Sexton, Kim

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“…The association between human body and architectural form, in metaphorical, symbolic or simply formal terms, is central in the classical Western architecture (Frascari 1991;Drake 2000;Zöllner 2014;Sexton 2017). It is mainly due to the spread of Italian Renaissance culture as it was fueled by the critical readings of Latin manuscripts, primarily Vitruvius.…”

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Figuration as Participation. Notes on Álvaro Siza's Architecture as Representation

Colonnese

2018

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Although in the wake of the Modern Movement tradition, Álvaro Siza Vieira’s architectural research moves along the thin red line between abstraction and representation. The apparent arbitrariness of some of his compositions, widely analyzed in typological and social key, is primarily an expression of his attention to the moving subject that never translates into illusory devices. Yet, in the last two decades of the 20th century, anthropomorphic and zoomorphic presences began to haunt his architectures, addressing to new meanings. The keys to understanding this phase of Siza’s creative trajectory reside in his hypertrophic graphic activity, in his production as a designer and, most of all, as a sculptor. On one hand, his sketches reveal the tension and negotiation between architecture body and human body, which to some extent constitute the extremes of his formal investigation. On the other hand, his objects and sculptures result as intermediate moments of experimentation and clarification by responding the ergonomic demands through the semantic economy of objet trouvée. Through them, Siza’s architectural anthropomorphism can be interpreted as a moment of transition towards an architecture parlant, which relies on the connotative participation of people to put in scene no longer figures or characters but interactions and feelings: the opportunity of a meeting.

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Figuration as Participation. Notes on Álvaro Siza's Architecture as Representation

Colonnese

2018

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Subjektivation und ästhetische Bildung in der post-digitalen Kultur

Jörissen

2018

Vierteljahrsschrift Für Wissenschaftliche Pädagogik

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The term ›Post-digital culture‹ describes a condition where digitality is deeply embedded not only into the medial aspects of everyday life, but also into the infrastructural and material layers of culture. The conditions of processes of subjectivation are transformed through the digital designs on multiple levels. Aesthetic education is discussed as a particular doorway to relate to transformations of the sensual, medial and material conditions of subjectivation through digital designs.

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Architecture and the Body, Science and Culture

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Figuration as Participation. Notes on Álvaro Siza's Architecture as Representation

Figuration as Participation. Notes on Álvaro Siza's Architecture as Representation

Subjektivation und ästhetische Bildung in der post-digitalen Kultur

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