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Article
Architectural Representation between Imagination and Revelation
Author(s)
Elena-Codina Duşoiu
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DOI:10.17265/1934-7359/2017.02.011
Affiliation(s)
Department Study of Form and Ambience, Ion Mincu University of Architecture and Urbanism, Bucharest 010014, Romania
ABSTRACT
This paper is born from the
intimate belief that solutions for the future are to be found in the past. No
transformation is irreversible enough to destroy the experiences of the past,
unified as a core in tradition. Those come into light whenever the proper conditions are created. From the point of
view of architecture, representation is the basis for the transmission of
knowledge, ideas, feelings, etc. The method of the paper is to put in antithesis
two concepts which define the present world of representation: real (associated
to transcendent revelation) and virtual (understood as result of human
imagination). An itinerary through the philosophy of Plato and Plotin, ancient
Greek, Byzantine, Gothic architecture, etc., is proposed, until encountering the moment of the
death of revelation and the birth of the arbitrary, which is connected to the
supremacy of the image. This journey through aesthetic conceptions brought
major changes in art and society during the centuries. Recuperation of the
involvement of all human senses into perception of space and understanding of
the built environment of life as revelation, and not as a simple interface of
images, may lead now to a revolution of urban spirit, based on a relationship
with the city inspired from the values promoted by Socrates and later developed
into Christianity, that proved their permanence across the millenniums.
KEYWORDS
Representation, imagination, real, virtual, revelation, communication.
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