The Immunization of Paris: Closing the Triptych of Modern Clichés for the Two-fold Matter of Form-taking

The Immunization of Paris: Closing the Triptych of Modern Clichés for the Two-fold Matter of Form-taking

Gorny, R.A.

Architecture and The Built Environment

Architecture

2015-01-01

Architecture has a long tradition to be thought in relation to the human body. But saying for example that architecture ‘has a body’ and a body ‘has an architecture’ historically separated forms from their internal relationships. Secondly, both are usually held as static things. Often falling back on reducing the (changes of) built environment to a representation of (a changing) social reality, this representational mode of thinking deteriorates problems of transformation, as for example the process of modernization. Against those representational models of thought the following paper will assume the built environment as explicitly productive. Poststructuralist thinkers have initiated a widespread refraction of these separate realms of bodies and relations, form and meaning, while connecting the processes how bodies take form, and how relations come to matter. More than tooling this concept of morphogenesis for architectural design, form-taking crucially affects architecture theory and history in its conceptualization of the formation of bodies and their ability to change.

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