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The Handprint, the Shower of Gold, and Thingness of Architecture

Architecture is eminently artificial human enterprise but subject to natural laws and principles residing somewhere between the mineral world and vegetation. It is eminently archaic, as the dominant epistemologies, pragmatic conditions and techniques may change, but fundamental notions, ideas and principles remain where they have been ever since the construction of the first shelter. Architecture is also eminently thingly. As a thing, every work of architecture is in opposition to our broken world of events. For better or for worse, in actual practice this opposition settles in the act of construction, as a project becomes a building: material, structure, space. In academia, this final cause is out of reach. Hence, the most difficult part of project courses is the moment of substantiation of the intended thingness of the project–in–progress into material presence: form, image, kind, emanation, spectacle, atmosphere. How to guide the studio projects beyond the banality of mechanical problems (is the project sustainable?), historical reference (is the project new and different?), and vague concepts (what does the project stand for in social, political and whatever other terms?)? In other words, how to communicate the thingness of architecture to students immersed into an ocean of words and concepts – Google Translate, Google Search???

reason, hand, light, shadow, myth, practice, dust

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