Architecture, Crisis and Resuscitation

Kaminer, Tahl

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“…One of the projects discussed by Aureli in his book The Possibility of an Absolute Architecture, 18 is The City of the Captive Globe, an OMA project from 1972 in which the New York grid creates 'islands' of urban block plinths on which diverse architectural apparitions are situated [3]. 19 Koolhaas, in the text accompanying the project, associated it with Oswald Mathias Ungers' 'archipelago model'. This model, significant for Aureli's argument regarding the relation of fragment to whole, was devised as a means of describing fragmented cities such as Rome and post-war Berlin.…”

Section: Enlightenment Sculpturementioning

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Von Ledoux bis Mies: the modern plinth as isolating element

Kaminer¹

2019

Arq

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One of the most conventional architectural elements is the plinth. Neither a specifically modern nor Western element, it is a familiar feature of religious buildings, and associated in premodern societies with the altar. The plinth is commonly understood as an expression of the elevation of the structure towards the sacred and its separation from profane daily life. A number of fairly recent publications have discussed the function of the architectural plinth in the twentieth century. The architectural historian Fritz Neumeyer, architectural historian and theorist K. Michael Hays, and architect and theorist Pier Vittorio Aureli have all argued that the role of the plinth in the work of Mies van der Rohe is mediation.1 In this, they modify a common modern conception of the plinth as an element that isolates and separates a building from its environment.

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Section: Enlightenment Sculpturementioning

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Von Ledoux bis Mies: the modern plinth as isolating element

Kaminer¹

2019

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“…La falta de agencia social 11 conllevó una estetización de lo político. Tahl Kaminer ha desarrollado en Architecture, crisis, and resuscitation cómo el fracaso de algunos posicionamientos críticos de la arquitectura de los años setenta condujo entonces a una retirada a la autonomía de la arquitectura de papel y de ahí al panorama actual de arquitectos estrella 12 .…”

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“…Lack of social agency 11 led to an aestheticisation of the political. Tahl Kaminer unfolded how the dead-ends of the architecture of the 1970s led it to a withdrawal in the autonomy of paper architecture and then to the present scenario of star architects 12 . Politics in housing evolved towards spectacle too.…”

Section: Democracy In Architecturementioning

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(Im)posibilidades De La Vivienda Participativa: Retornando Al Sistema Flexibo

Díaz¹,

Haugbølle²

2018

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RESUMEN El objetivo de este texto es analizar qué puede aprender la arquitectura contemporánea de las experiencias históricas de la arquitectura participativa. Partiendo de la teoría de la construcción social de la tecnología (SCOT), se estudia la tradición de vivienda participativa de los años sesenta y setenta. Se identifican los problemas a los que esta se enfrentó y cómo terminó resultando marginal. El artículo se centra en el caso ejemplar de Flexibo, un sistema de vivienda de soportes y aportes desarrollado en Dinamarca en los años setenta. Ciertas condiciones sociales e históricas en los países nórdicos establecieron un caldo de cultivo óptimo para la democratización de la vivienda, por lo que en estos países la influencia de la arquitectura participativa, si bien discreta, ha sido amplia. No obstante, el estudio revela la principal limitación de la arquitectura participativa tal como ésta sucedió: la mayor parte de los esfuerzos hacia la democratización de la vida cotidiana por parte de la arquitectura no fueron acompañado por la democratización de los procesos y las prácticas arquitectónicas. Ciertas experiencias coetáneas manifiestamente alternativas, se apuntan finalmente como pistas para aquellos interesados hoy en alcanzar el viejo objetivo de una participación transformadora. PALABRAS CLAVE participación; Flexibo; Dinamarca; democracia vecinal; soportes y aportes; SCOT SUMMARY The purpose of this paper is to discuss what contemporary architecture can learn from historical experience of participatory architecture. Based on the theory of social construction of technology (SCOT), this paper analyses the tradition of participatory architecture from the 1960s and 1970s. It identifies the problems faced by participatory architecture, and how participatory architecture turned out to be marginal to mainstream architecture. This paper focuses on the exemplary case of Flexibo, a housing system of support and infill developed in Denmark in the 1970s. Certain socio-historical conditions in the Nordic countries presented an optimal breeding ground for housing democracy, and in these countries the influence of participatory architecture, though modest, is still broad. Nevertheless, the study reveals the main limitation of this participatory architecture as it emerged: most of the efforts towards democratisation of everyday life by architecture came unaccompanied by parallel efforts towards democratisation of the everyday of architectural processes and practices. Finally, this paper points out some alternative ways to overcome the previous missteps for those today who are still interested in the old goal of a transforming participatory architecture.

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“…The consequent withdrawal from reality ('into itself') has been seen either as (bad) escapism or as a (good) strategy of resistance: 'The withdrawal is into an idealist realm, a realm secluded from everyday life and from contamination by the unacceptable new order.' 13 The urge to ward off the givens and to continue to contemplate alternatives is most worthy. Especially in the light of the recent tendency to jump on the band wagon of ¥€$ (is more) 'pragmatic yet utopian [sic] third way'.…”

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Architecture’s Awaking from Correlationist Slumber: On Transdisciplinarity and Disciplinary Specificity

Radman

2012

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Perception cannot be considered independently of the environment since it is defined as an evolved adaptive and constructive relation between the life-form and its milieu. Unfortunately, experimental psychology research has relied overwhelmingly on object perception, rather than environment perception, with the findings of the former providing the basis for understanding the latter. Architectural research continues to suffer from this fallacy. Furthermore, to separate the ‘cultural’ from the ‘natural’ environment – as if there were a world of mental and a world of material products – is a fatal mistake. There is only one world. The paper explores J.J. Gibson’s unwitting affiliation with Deleuze. The most notable point of convergence between the two thinkers is their more or less overt theory of ‘passive synthesis’ of perception with which they vehemently oppose, or better yet complement, the active synthesis of representation.

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Architecture, Crisis and Resuscitation

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Von Ledoux bis Mies: the modern plinth as isolating element

Von Ledoux bis Mies: the modern plinth as isolating element

(Im)posibilidades De La Vivienda Participativa: Retornando Al Sistema Flexibo

Architecture’s Awaking from Correlationist Slumber: On Transdisciplinarity and Disciplinary Specificity

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