How many furniture, or houses, or urban districts, that where designed and made in the 80s are still relevant today? What clothes or shoes that period can be worn without appearing old or out of time? Everybody can say almost all. In forty years the living spaces have not changed that much. Even less their projects have been modified. The way in which they are conceived and designed is almost the same. Fashion, architecture, and cities are the sensitive forms that better represent the people that generated them. They express lifestyle, a status and, in some way aspirations and expectations for the future. Is it possible that they remained so indifferent to the changes of the last decades? A few times the distance between gestalt and zeitgeist was so dramatic. The paradigm that binds the aesthetics to the projection of time blowed up. The overcoming of modernity lies especially in this. We live like an eternal present. Where the sensitive forms and their representations in solid space no longer carry an idea of the future. Even today everything changes and so much faster than before. Innovation is conducted in the intangible areas of the net rather than in the material spaces. The Eternal Present involves us in a bounding. There is a kind of impossibility to interpret the future thought the “solid forms” of architecture. To give meaning, narrative and uses—even temporary uses—to spaces that have already given forms and turn them into attractive and ecologically efficient places to live. Narrative can be the design device that describes the capacity for resistance of all that is appreciable through the senses (architecture, fashion, music), the digital revolution of shared information, or in other terms, to the evolution of the concept of author, of copy, of heritage, of form.

The Resistance of Architecture at the time that everything and nothing changes / Ricci, M.. - In: EDA, ESEMPI DI ARCHITETTURA. - ISSN 2384-9576. - STAMPA. - 2018, 5:2(2018), pp. 92-101. [10.4399/978882551860311]

The Resistance of Architecture at the time that everything and nothing changes

Ricci M.
2018-01-01

Abstract

How many furniture, or houses, or urban districts, that where designed and made in the 80s are still relevant today? What clothes or shoes that period can be worn without appearing old or out of time? Everybody can say almost all. In forty years the living spaces have not changed that much. Even less their projects have been modified. The way in which they are conceived and designed is almost the same. Fashion, architecture, and cities are the sensitive forms that better represent the people that generated them. They express lifestyle, a status and, in some way aspirations and expectations for the future. Is it possible that they remained so indifferent to the changes of the last decades? A few times the distance between gestalt and zeitgeist was so dramatic. The paradigm that binds the aesthetics to the projection of time blowed up. The overcoming of modernity lies especially in this. We live like an eternal present. Where the sensitive forms and their representations in solid space no longer carry an idea of the future. Even today everything changes and so much faster than before. Innovation is conducted in the intangible areas of the net rather than in the material spaces. The Eternal Present involves us in a bounding. There is a kind of impossibility to interpret the future thought the “solid forms” of architecture. To give meaning, narrative and uses—even temporary uses—to spaces that have already given forms and turn them into attractive and ecologically efficient places to live. Narrative can be the design device that describes the capacity for resistance of all that is appreciable through the senses (architecture, fashion, music), the digital revolution of shared information, or in other terms, to the evolution of the concept of author, of copy, of heritage, of form.
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Ricci, M.
The Resistance of Architecture at the time that everything and nothing changes / Ricci, M.. - In: EDA, ESEMPI DI ARCHITETTURA. - ISSN 2384-9576. - STAMPA. - 2018, 5:2(2018), pp. 92-101. [10.4399/978882551860311]
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