#archtheory

[eksperiential-blog]

#archtheory THE FIRST ARCHITECTURAL INSTINCT  To break down scale. that is what we all did as children, when we created little shelters made of pillows and blankets. We adapt the environement to our scale, from the vastness of the house, the realm of the adults, we create a little shelter. A space of our own. In part, it has something to do with differentiating between my space, ans the other's. But mainly, I think it relates to how we dwell in the incomprehensible vastness of the universe. By breaking down the scale of space into comprehensible units that we call Architecture. https://www.instagram.com/p/B0IIOlSp23Y/?igshid=cdeu0084i540

[jamieegid]

Midterm exam for archtheory. Dragon mask inspired by white temple in thailand😊

[mardinartuklumimarlik]

Fakültemiz öğretim üyesi Pelin Tan, çapraz materyalizm, nesne ontolojisi ve istisna üzerine yazdı. Faculty member Tan, contributed with a chapter discusses transversal materialism, artefact ontology and exception. Book in english: https://cup.columbia.edu/book/2000/9781941332078

[derfoto]

"Da Space Cone" 92 Ink on Mylar #sciarch #karlchu #archtheory #neveragain #architecture

[tatarintseff-blog]

grid 8. checkmate #tatigridseries #inhabitablegrid #archtheory #discourse #pencil

[cylla-blog]

Quote of the day: "...anyone who might regret that the house of the future will no longer be produced by craftsmen should recall that the automobile is no longer built by wheelwrights either." -Mies van der Rohe #archgeek #archtheory #homework #reading (at E.S. Bird Library at Syracuse University)

[eksperiential-blog]

[eksperiential-blog]

NS: The industrial-modernist takeover was indeed based first upon substituting intellect for instinct. That cut us off from our visceral and evolved reactions to what is good or bad in our environment. But the second step is the most important: the intellectual brainwashing that then conditions human beings to accept unhealthy situations and products. This is the great breakthrough of both the left and the right (mass indoctrination to support “Great Leaders”), to abandon one’s heritage and culture so as to work for global finance and advertising firms. All of this started in the 1920s, and its fruits were the Bolshevik movement, the Nazi party, and the triumph of product advertising and consumerism. To come back to your statement, it was and still remains essential for such projects to de-condition our bodily instinct. Once detached from our neural system, we can be manipulated to commit atrocities.

Nikos Salingros, https://www.clarionreview.org/2017/09/building-with-biophilia-an-interview-with-nikos-salingaros/

[eksperiential-blog]

[eksperiential-blog]

The experience of Wonder

Wonder is the emotion felt in front of the spectacle of human achievement, the informed appreciation of the hand or mind's labor.

The word informed is important: If the sublime is induced by mystery, wonder is conditioned by knowledge.

Would you be as impressed by a hand made sculpture, as you would by a 3D printed object? 

While the objects might look exactly the same, and maybe even better executed by the machine, we certainly won't have the same emotional reaction to them. Assuming that we know which one is which.

This might be one of the reasons why we can be so moved by an medieval cathedral, but not by a modern building no matter how formally impressive. 

In the past, the function of wonder was largely fulfilled by craftsmen. The intricacy of patterns, the precision of a sculpture or the technique in a painting, allowed us to experience an empathetic connection with the original act of creation.

Today's architecture, by straightening it's edges, banning ornamentation and reducing labor to mere assembly sucked wonder out of it's walls. We are left with nice looking (at best), but inert forms that seem to require a masters degree in Architecture to be appreciated.

How do we reintroduce wonder? 

Maybe by un-straightening edges, reintroducing ornementation and re-engaging with creative labor.

[eksperiential-blog]

The experience of the sublime

let’s start by defining the sublime as both the descriptive quality of an experience, and the emotion produced during that experience.

It's the feeling of standing in front of a majestic mountain. it’s a mixture of fear and admiration. An imposing presence of something that is beyond us. Something that exceeds our ability to make sens of the world.

we could say that the experience of the sublime is produced in our mindscape, from the interaction between the scale of our human life and the intemporel scale of the landscape. In this collision, we experience an opening where we see beyond our solid individuality.

It's a feeling a belonging.

It's that one tiny piece of clay, suddenly realizing that it's part of a larger mosaic. In fact, it is the mosaic.

[tatarintseff-blog]

grid 7. the pulse. #tatigridseries #inhabitablegrid #archtheory #discourse #pencil #universe

[tatarintseff-blog]

grid 6. the chosen one. abyss. #tatigridseries #archtheory #discourse #inhabitablegrid #pencil

[tatarintseff-blog]

grid 5. space defying chronos. #tatigridseries #archtheory #discourse #inhabitablegrid #pencil

[tatarintseff-blog]

grid 4. seeds #tatigridseries #archtheory #discourse #inhabitablegrid #pencil

[tatarintseff-blog]

grid 2 #tatigridseries #archtheory #discourse #space #inhabitablegrid