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was recently published along with two sets
of photographs, one of the building and the other showing figures in motion.
Reminiscent of fashion photography, this was the architect’s decision, to try
to capture the sub-conscious context behind the conceptual process:
They
are meant to be shown next to each other to express the two aspects mentioned
above: the idea of movement as a structuring principle, and the way in which
the specific architectural imagination is engaging with the collective imagination.24
On
another level phenomenology has been used in various projects of “resistance”,
where the emphasis on bodily experience has exposed the limits of functional principles.
This has also shown how deconstruction has been deeply influenced by
phenomenology, particularly in Jacques Derrida’s critique of Heidegger and its
architectural counterpart in recent buildings. In this regard the writings of
Bernard Tschumi could also be seen as part of this movement, particularly his
early essays on the “Pleasure of Architecture” and the “erotic” dimension of
spatial experience:
Exceeding
functionalist dogmas, semiotic systems, historical precedents or formalized
products of past social or economic constraints is not necessarily a matter of
subversion but a matter of preserving the erotic capacity of architecture by
disrupting the form that most conservative societies expect of it.25
Tschumi
went on to develop this notion towards a new way of thinking about the use of
space – his idea was to avoid the kind of functional specificity which he felt
was stifling the real life of architecture. To this end he came up with the
intriguing concept of the architecture of the “event”:
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