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Knowledge as Revealed in Built Form: Architecture’s Hermeneutic Potentials (Piscinas das Marés in Leça da Palmeira, Álvaro Siza) to the Transvaluation Symposium in Göteborg 21-22 May 2015.
The term knowledge can be ambiguous, and has been largely appropriated by scientific method to signify the accumulation of verifiable facts. But this kind of knowledge formation is only a part of how we understand ourselves and the world in which we exist. Although it greatly impacts on the world and our lives, it lacks the tools to reflect on that impact. That is not to say that it does not have value. But its value does not warrant the subjugation of other kinds of knowledge formation and neither is it a universally appropriate method. The work of Álvaro Siza is widely recognised as, not only being sensitive to its context but also, highlighting and often intensifying elements of its surroundings. This kind of ‘making’, which draws on memory and tradition, reveals elements of its situation and contributes to our understanding of that situation. When framed in this way it becomes apparent that it is a valuable source of knowledge formation in relation to how we ‘make’ (poiesis) and how we ‘live’ (praxis). The design of Siza’s saltwater pools at Leça da Palmeira (1961-66) reveals elements of the landscape, built environment, and social and cultural situation. The work reveals these things in the way it transforms the environment and represents the world of which it is part. It is, therefore, valuable in its own right in the formation of knowledge. And research into it and other works can further reveal the processes through which this is achieved both in relation to its poetics and the lived world it transforms. Drawing on Martin Heidegger’s concept of truth as ‘unconcealedness’ (aletheia) this paper explores how transforming our environment through 'making’ has the potential to reveal elements of the historical tradition in which the ‘making’ is situated. The historical nature of existence necessitates that the sense-making structure that is the world is always encountered within a particular horizon. Understanding, therefore, always takes place within a particular application. Understanding in this sense is ...
Knowledge as Revealed in Built Form: Architecture’s Hermeneutic Potentials (Piscinas das Marés in Leça da Palmeira, Álvaro Siza) to the Transvaluation Symposium in Göteborg 21-22 May 2015.
The term knowledge can be ambiguous, and has been largely appropriated by scientific method to signify the accumulation of verifiable facts. But this kind of knowledge formation is only a part of how we understand ourselves and the world in which we exist. Although it greatly impacts on the world and our lives, it lacks the tools to reflect on that impact. That is not to say that it does not have value. But its value does not warrant the subjugation of other kinds of knowledge formation and neither is it a universally appropriate method. The work of Álvaro Siza is widely recognised as, not only being sensitive to its context but also, highlighting and often intensifying elements of its surroundings. This kind of ‘making’, which draws on memory and tradition, reveals elements of its situation and contributes to our understanding of that situation. When framed in this way it becomes apparent that it is a valuable source of knowledge formation in relation to how we ‘make’ (poiesis) and how we ‘live’ (praxis). The design of Siza’s saltwater pools at Leça da Palmeira (1961-66) reveals elements of the landscape, built environment, and social and cultural situation. The work reveals these things in the way it transforms the environment and represents the world of which it is part. It is, therefore, valuable in its own right in the formation of knowledge. And research into it and other works can further reveal the processes through which this is achieved both in relation to its poetics and the lived world it transforms. Drawing on Martin Heidegger’s concept of truth as ‘unconcealedness’ (aletheia) this paper explores how transforming our environment through 'making’ has the potential to reveal elements of the historical tradition in which the ‘making’ is situated. The historical nature of existence necessitates that the sense-making structure that is the world is always encountered within a particular horizon. Understanding, therefore, always takes place within a particular application. Understanding in this sense is ...
Knowledge as Revealed in Built Form: Architecture’s Hermeneutic Potentials (Piscinas das Marés in Leça da Palmeira, Álvaro Siza) to the Transvaluation Symposium in Göteborg 21-22 May 2015.
Faulder, Sally (author)
2015-05-01
Faulder , S 2015 , ' Knowledge as Revealed in Built Form: Architecture’s Hermeneutic Potentials (Piscinas das Marés in Leça da Palmeira, Álvaro Siza) to the Transvaluation Symposium in Göteborg 21-22 May 2015. ' , Paper presented at Transvaluation , Gothenburg , Sweden , 21/05/2015 - 22/05/2015 . < http://conferences.chalmers.se/index.php/Transvaluation/Transvaluation/ >
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