Studies in Italian Renaissance Architecture

Watson, Sara Ruth; Lotz, Wolfgang

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“…Raphael claims, in his 1519 letter to the Pope, that the cross section had to be considered as important a drawing as the ground plan and the elevation; 32 forming, from then on, the famous triad of architectural design. 33 Certain academics claim that there is a relation between architectural cross sections and human dissections, even originating in some cases (how queer an origin would be!). 34 The addition of the cross section in the architectural tool-kit established the dialectic relation of surface and depth, signalling a new era for the inner organisation of architectural artifacts.…”

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A Surgery Issue: Cutting through the Architectural Fabric

Angelopoulou

2017

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This essay examines the material ontologies of surgical trans-modifications. Focusing on incisions and subsequent scars, the essay argues for the queering of architecture and design as an act of cutting through structures and processes. I start by rereading a topological body plan, used by surgeons as a guide for performing incisions. I suggest that this plan constitutes a variation within topological representations. It is thus reconceptualised as an internally contradictory representation, calling for dis/continuous cutting acts upon the represented body; that is an amphi-topological representation. The notion of the cut is further approached from the point of view of queer theory and ‘agential realism’. This perspective offers affirmative ways of discussing about acts of cutting. When performed into self-organizing fabrics, cuts appear to act as ‘agents of dis/continuity’. Then, the discussion passes through the genealogy of the architectural section and the building cuts of Gordon Matta Clark, so as to show that the production of buildings by ‘cutting through them to come to matter’ is deep-rooted in the architectural discipline. Next, the philosophical origins of the idea of cutting through the material fabric of the world are sought. It is argued that the latter, beginning as a gnosiological tool, was transformed into a fabricating tool and then into a tool of smoothing the striated. The essay concludes with the presentation of SCARchiCAD; a computational design tool which takes the skin’s wound healing process as a model, offering an interpretation of what the ‘cutting through a virtual form’ could suggest for the design of architectural bodies and the queering of architecture.

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Angelopoulou

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RENAISSANCE ART & ARCHITECTURE

Lawson

2005

The Art Book

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Ética e estética nas arte, arquitetura e urbanismo contemporâneos - uma crítica realista

Lima¹

2010

Pós. Rev. Programa Pós-Grad. Arquit. Urban. FAUUSP

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Arte, arquitetura e urbanismo. Crise de valores estéticos e éticos. É nesse sentido que este ensaio pretende ser um ponto de luz dentro da absoluta timidez em que essas ciências se encontram. Baseando-se nos conceitos de "dialética" e de "idealismo" e "alienação", pretendemos afirmar ser impossível haver arte, arquitetura e urbanismo condensando valores éticos e estéticos de alto valor social dentro de um sistema capitalista. Desde o surgimento desse sistema econômico, as artes se encontram, salvo algumas exceções pontuais, impossibilitadas de expor seus reais valores de transformação social. A contribuição de Georg Lukács pode nos fornecer luzes para esclarecer os motivos dessa crise que as artes enfrentam desde meados do século 16, com a aceleração do sistema capitalista; em especial a arquitetura. No século 20, com o florescimento do movimento moderno na arquitetura e suas repercussões nas artes plásticas, o vazio de valores estéticos tornouse um reflexo da ausência de valores éticos. O problema se tornou um problema do homem enquanto ser social. A ontologia deste homem é uma das chaves para compreensão dessa problemática. Nesse sentido, reativar a missão emancipadora das artes e da arquitetura, em particular, torna-se nossa missão, principalmente quando percebemos que "a realidade é tão trivial e medíocre que qualquer realce verdadeiramente poético" aparece-nos como algo estranho. Estamos tão acostumados com a falta de crítica individual e social que não conseguimos atingir uma superação mínima que seja. Palavras-chaveArte, arquitetura, urbanismo, crítica, estética, ética.tica e estética nas arte, arquitetura e urbanismo contemporâneos -uma crítica realista é Fellipe

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Studies in Italian Renaissance Architecture

Cited by 12 publications

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A Surgery Issue: Cutting through the Architectural Fabric

A Surgery Issue: Cutting through the Architectural Fabric

RENAISSANCE ART & ARCHITECTURE

Ética e estética nas arte, arquitetura e urbanismo contemporâneos - uma crítica realista

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