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Architecture as Reading; Virtuality, Secrecy, Monstrosity
The phenomenon of virtual space is fundamental to the way human beings relate perceptually, behaviorally, and existentially to their world. Virtuality is the presence of what is not literally present, and it thus enables the immanence of building to be annealed to the past and future, analogous form, and hypothetical possibility. In sum, virtuality is synonymous with “architecture” proper, as opposed to building simple. Through the use of gesture, the non-present is made present and given a secret status ruled by a non-classical or “grotesque” order. The principle of our access to the virtual is based on the act of reading, where the movement from the actual to the virtual is simultaneously a spatial and a philosophical transformation. Reading is not simply the translation of phonetic or iconographic characters into their linguistic equivalents, but a restructuring of the space of appearance. The origins and evolution of this “space of reading” are characterized by a distinctive architecture, and the architecture of inhabitable spaces is conditioned by this distinctive architecture: the architecture of reading is the means of reading architecture.
Architecture as Reading; Virtuality, Secrecy, Monstrosity
The phenomenon of virtual space is fundamental to the way human beings relate perceptually, behaviorally, and existentially to their world. Virtuality is the presence of what is not literally present, and it thus enables the immanence of building to be annealed to the past and future, analogous form, and hypothetical possibility. In sum, virtuality is synonymous with “architecture” proper, as opposed to building simple. Through the use of gesture, the non-present is made present and given a secret status ruled by a non-classical or “grotesque” order. The principle of our access to the virtual is based on the act of reading, where the movement from the actual to the virtual is simultaneously a spatial and a philosophical transformation. Reading is not simply the translation of phonetic or iconographic characters into their linguistic equivalents, but a restructuring of the space of appearance. The origins and evolution of this “space of reading” are characterized by a distinctive architecture, and the architecture of inhabitable spaces is conditioned by this distinctive architecture: the architecture of reading is the means of reading architecture.
Architecture as Reading; Virtuality, Secrecy, Monstrosity
Kunze, Donald (author)
Journal of Architectural Education ; 41 ; 28-37
1988-07-01
10 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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