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page070from Building Ideas
3 Le Corbusier – Pilgrimage Chapel, Ranchamp, Belfort, 1950-55.(Alistair Gardner)
Scharoun’s major project for the Berlin Philharmonie. Both buildings have become icons for their respective host cities, despite the technical problems of building them and the functional challenges of inhabiting them. A more recent example of this phenomenon is Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim museum, completed recently in the run-down and neglected Spanish city of Bilbao. This building’s complexity provides a startling demonstration of the advances in information technology, as the hand-crafted models, made in the architect’s own office, have been computerized into digital dat
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page069from Building Ideasarchitecture, their work suggests other interpretive possibilities, such as the recovery and reassessment of previously marginal works of architecture.
Architecture and the Housing of Tradition
In architecture the debate over the truth-value of different languages has also been influential in the development of modernism. As the argument between Muthesius and van de Velde made clear, the role of the artist in architecture has often been questioned. In the early years of modern architecture a division had developed between the deterministic methods of science and the free inventions of the artist. The architects of the expressionist wing of modernism, such as Erich Mendelsohn and Hans scharoun, had demonstra... more ...
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page068from Building Ideasadhere to the principles of Positivism – such as those with which Wittgenstein began and soon abandoned.
Derrida is likewise concerned with the limits of language, together with the general principles and mechanisms of signification, and in this he takes off from the ideas of Structuralism, which we will return to in Chapter 4. In his preoccupation with language as the very medium of philosophy, he betrays a similar priority to Heidegger, although he is much more concerned with the peculiarities of writing as distinct from the traditional emphasis on speech. The difference is significant for much of Derrida’s work but what is important here is the wider objective – by enquiring into the medium of his discipline with such ... more ...
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page067from Building Ideas“paradigm” and the freedom that resulted from this has expanded the boundaries of human knowledge. Martin Heidegger, in a similar vein, also challenged the assumptions of philosophy and attempted what he called a “critical un-building” of its traditions. It was this notion that was picked up by the French philosopher Jacques Derrida when he coined the term “deconstruction” to described his own approach to the problem.
In Derrida’s work one could say that philosophy is being done, if not “with a hammer” – as Nietzsche recommended – then at least with a crow-bar, for the purpose of opening up and revealing. Much of his writing deals specifically with the work of previous philosophers, as he attempts to expose their initial ... more ...
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