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plurality
of possibilities that can no longer be foreclosed by function, by teleology or
the aesthetics of form.20
This
project is therefore a clear example of the notion touched on earlier, that
architectural ideas exist at many different levels – in drawings, writings and
models and not merely in completed buildings. The fact that some of these ideas
have been obscured through the changes to the building during its life should
not detract from the value of the project as a demonstration of architecture’s
“critical” capacities.
Rescuing
the question of meaning from the reduction of architecture to engineering has
been a preoccupation in architectural theory for at least the last several decades.
It is this theme, which has only been touched on in this section, which will
now become the central question in the remaining chapters. The following
sections will map out the territory between the two positions discussed so far,
which could be seen to mark the opposite poles of the argement over meaning and
interpretation in architecture.
Suggestions for further reading
Background
Monroe Beardsley, Aesthetics: From
Classical Greece to the Present, A short History, Macmillan, New York, 1966.
John D. Caputo, Deconstruction in a
Nutshell: A Conversation with Jacques Derrida, Fordham University Press, New
York, 1997.
Jacques Derrida, “The End of the Book and
the Beginning Writing”, in Of Grammatology, translated by Gayatri C. Spivak,
Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1976, pp 6-26
Hans-Georg Gadamer, “The Relevance of the
Beautiful” in The Relevance of the Beautiful and Other Essays Robert
Bernasconi(ed.), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1986, pp 3-53.
20 Andrew Benjamin, “Eisenman and the
Housing of Tradition”, in Neil Leach(ed.), Rethinking Architecture, Routledge,
London, 1997, p 300.
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