Tuesday, April 15, 2008

The future of space...?

Elizabeths Grosz essay on “The Future of Space: Towards an Architecture of Invention” seems to touch on very similar concepts, theories, and philosophies that have be discussed and debated in most progressive architectural schools of thought. The relationship to architecture, and the way she frames the conversation although brings into debate the fundamental traditional metaphysical connection between identity and difference, space and time and the overarching attachment in the ways we might perceive architecture. There is an excerpt that really resonates (I think) with the topics (I believe) in which we as a class are trying to explore this semester as speculative studies in architecture. “ To remember (to place oneself in the past), to relocate (to cast oneself elsewhere), is to occupy the whole time and the whole space, even admitting that duration and location are always specific, always defined by movement and action. It is to refuse to conceptualize space as a medium, as a content, a passive receptacle whose form is given by its content, and instead to see it as a moment of becoming, of opening up and proliferation, a passage from one space to another, a space of change, which changes with time” p. 119 Architecture from the Outside. And it is at this point I start to conceptualize (maybe?) what this next project(2) is going to explore/study. The study of time and space in which the student is asked to perceive, understand, think, and create a reflection in which describes a way to look and consider spatially relationships.

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