There was a time, when architecture was a discipline of technical and artistic innovation that helped to bring forward not only the discipline itself, but general cultural and scientific thought. We will see in the future, whether that’s the case now, but anyway it stays an amazing built image of a culture’s ideas and values, as it reflects the technical possibilities as well as the philosophical definitions of space in a uniquely pragmatic way. In our time, the parameters of our environment have profoundly changed, we are all conscious of living in a time of shifting definitions, of the relativisation of space and time and thus of a re-positioning of architecture as our most intimate surrounding.
[Ben Grasso, Acending house, oil on canvas, 2006, Source]
Since almost 100 years, space has married time and thus gained a fourth dimension, solid objects have been decomposed into unpredictable quanta and virtual space has developed from abstract, theoretical thought to everyday and everyone’s experience.
We know – that the world is much more complex, more fluid, less determined and fixed than we used to believe.
We build – finished rigid objects for finished analyzed places in simple geometries. Maybe it’s time to move.
As a little exercise in relativity, this series of texts will try to present and interpret different regards on space. If you don’t agree – feel free to interact!
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