Building Memory: Ontology in Architecture
Malpas, Jeff
Building Memory: Ontology in Architecture - urbanNext, February 01, 2019. - 3690 words.
Essay, expanding design practices, Jeff Malpas, No Density, Territory and mobility
Accessibility, Architecture, Architecture’s challenge, Building, City, Collective identity, Contemporary architecture, Cultural agitator, Design, Essay, Ethics, Humanity, Identity, Memory, Power of materiality, Practice, Public engagement, Responsive Environment, Space-time relationship, Texture, Topography
The following is an abridged version of an essay that first appeared in Interstices: Journal of Architecture and Related Arts 13 (2012), pp.11-21.
What is the ontology of architecture? One way to understand this question is to take it as asking after the basic elements of architectural practice. Another is to take the question as directed at the being of architecture, its proper limits and grounds. It is in this latter sense that I wish to put the question here. When taken in this sense, it seems there can be only one answer: more so than any other mode of human activity, architecture has its being in the human engagement with place, and more specifically, in the engagement with place as opened through building.
2575-5374
Architecture Theory Concept
Building Memory: Ontology in Architecture - urbanNext, February 01, 2019. - 3690 words.
Essay, expanding design practices, Jeff Malpas, No Density, Territory and mobility
Accessibility, Architecture, Architecture’s challenge, Building, City, Collective identity, Contemporary architecture, Cultural agitator, Design, Essay, Ethics, Humanity, Identity, Memory, Power of materiality, Practice, Public engagement, Responsive Environment, Space-time relationship, Texture, Topography
The following is an abridged version of an essay that first appeared in Interstices: Journal of Architecture and Related Arts 13 (2012), pp.11-21.
What is the ontology of architecture? One way to understand this question is to take it as asking after the basic elements of architectural practice. Another is to take the question as directed at the being of architecture, its proper limits and grounds. It is in this latter sense that I wish to put the question here. When taken in this sense, it seems there can be only one answer: more so than any other mode of human activity, architecture has its being in the human engagement with place, and more specifically, in the engagement with place as opened through building.
2575-5374
Architecture Theory Concept