Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
Experiencing, Knowing, and Building Architecture
Introducing the theme of experiencing, knowing and building architecture necessarily departs from key references outside architecture’s realm. The studies of António Damásio on the link and interdependence between mind and body, and the influence of the instinctive and body mechanisms over rational processes – namely in what it relates to the creative process (J. A. Marina) – as well as the body of knowledge on the phenomenology of perception by Merleau-Ponty, are then the core sources of my positing: architecture, being a physical and mental phenomenon and a mind-body experience, becomes a reflection of how the human being connects to the outside world; it delivers visibility to what remains otherwise concealed in other areas of knowledge - perhaps due to a tendency to simplify conceptual models throughout the creative process in architecture. Whereas other areas of knowledge are traditionally linked to rationality and science, or intuition and arts, architecture’s creative process was always hazily thought about or deemed ‘confusing’. Taking into account the references above, we can say that architecture’s creative process – or a project-geared reasoning – is not in essence different from other disciplines. What differs is the object and work processes. Relating both rational and instinctive processes in the ‘creative act’ is then found to be part of the interplay between the memory of sensorial images and lived images. This leads me to highlight the importance of sensitive experience in both the practice and teaching of architecture – in sum, sensitive experience is here thought as the foundation for creative memory and creative inquiry or, in other words, real knowledge. A number of projects will be used to examine in depth what I have posited above. With selected works of Álvaro Siza, Steven Holl, Peter Zumthor, and Le Corbusier, I will try to illustrate this apparent dance between lived images and memory levels vis-à-vis the rational-instinctive and body-mental process of experiencing, knowing and building architecture.
Experiencing, Knowing, and Building Architecture
Introducing the theme of experiencing, knowing and building architecture necessarily departs from key references outside architecture’s realm. The studies of António Damásio on the link and interdependence between mind and body, and the influence of the instinctive and body mechanisms over rational processes – namely in what it relates to the creative process (J. A. Marina) – as well as the body of knowledge on the phenomenology of perception by Merleau-Ponty, are then the core sources of my positing: architecture, being a physical and mental phenomenon and a mind-body experience, becomes a reflection of how the human being connects to the outside world; it delivers visibility to what remains otherwise concealed in other areas of knowledge - perhaps due to a tendency to simplify conceptual models throughout the creative process in architecture. Whereas other areas of knowledge are traditionally linked to rationality and science, or intuition and arts, architecture’s creative process was always hazily thought about or deemed ‘confusing’. Taking into account the references above, we can say that architecture’s creative process – or a project-geared reasoning – is not in essence different from other disciplines. What differs is the object and work processes. Relating both rational and instinctive processes in the ‘creative act’ is then found to be part of the interplay between the memory of sensorial images and lived images. This leads me to highlight the importance of sensitive experience in both the practice and teaching of architecture – in sum, sensitive experience is here thought as the foundation for creative memory and creative inquiry or, in other words, real knowledge. A number of projects will be used to examine in depth what I have posited above. With selected works of Álvaro Siza, Steven Holl, Peter Zumthor, and Le Corbusier, I will try to illustrate this apparent dance between lived images and memory levels vis-à-vis the rational-instinctive and body-mental process of experiencing, knowing and building architecture.
Experiencing, Knowing, and Building Architecture
Rui Manuel Reis Alves (Autor:in)
2019
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Elektronische Ressource
Unbekannt
, Architecture , NA1-9428
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