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2007 Juhani Pallasmaa
Space, Place, Memory and Imagination: The
Temporal Dimension of Existential Space
The time perspective in architecture
Architecture is usually seen in futuristic
terms; novel buildings are understood to probe and project an unforeseen
reality, and architectural quality is directly associated with its degree of
novelty and uniqueness. Modernity at large has been dominated by this
futuristic bias. Yet, the appreciation of newness has probably never been as
obsessive as in today’s cult of spectacular architectural imagery. In our
globalized world, newness is not only an aesthetic and artistic value, it is
strategic necessity of the culture of consumption, and consequently, an
inseparable ingredient of our surreal materialist culture.
However,
human constructions have also the task to preserve the past, and enable us to
experience and grasp the continuum of culture and tradition. We do not only
exist in a spatial and material reality, we also inhabit cultural, mental and
temporal realities. Our existential and lived reality is a thick, layered and
constantly oscillating condition. Architecture is essential an art form of
reconciliation and mediation, and in addition to settling us in space and
place, landscapes and buildings articulate our experiences of duration and time
between the polarities of past and future. In fact, along with the entire
corpus of literature and the arts, landscapes and buildings constitute the most
important externalization of human memory. We understand and remember who we
are through our constructions, both material and mental. We also judge alien
and past cultures through the evidence provided by the architectural structures
they have produced. Buildings project epic narratives.
In
addition to practical purposes, architectural structures have a significant
existential and mental task; they domesticate space for human occupation by
turning anonymous, uniform and limitless space into distinct places of human
significance, and equally importantly, they make endless time tolerable by
giving duration its human measure. As Karsten Harries, the philosopher, argues:
Architecture
helps to replace meaningless reality with a theatrically, or rather
architecturally, transformed reality, which draws us in and, as we surrender to
it, grants us an illusion of meaning … we cannot live with chaos. Chaos must be
transformed into cosmos.1
“Architecture is not only about
domesticating space. It is also a deep defence against the terror of time”, he
states in another context.2
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