HIM and HER

How a cognitive and experiential understanding of the place can create new meanings for a more conscious design action

Master thesis (2020)

Authors

A. Malagnino Architecture and the Built Environment

Contributors

J.A. Vink Teachers of Practice / A - Architecture and the Built Environment (supervisor 1)
J.P.G. Holst Teachers of Practice / AE+T - Architecture and the Built Environment (supervisor 2)
F. Rizzetto (coach)
L.M. Calabrese Urban Design - Architecture and the Built Environment (coach)
T. Kuzniecow Bacchin Urban Design - Architecture and the Built Environment (coach)
Faculty
Architecture and the Built Environment
Copyright: © 2020 Andrea Malagnino
Landscape Architectural composition Tectonic Site
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Published Date

03-11-2020

Language

English

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Faculty

Architecture and the Built Environment

Abstract

The project I propose is not the child of its time, it rejects the lexicon of current affairs (climate change, pollution, exploitation of resources) as well as that of social issues. It does not want to solve the problem of the site in which it operates, but it embraces a horizon of analysis and observation of man in his existential dimension, completely isolated from the dynamics determined by the homo faber. The project focuses on the relationship between the homo figurans 1 and the territory in which he lives, an archaic, but never anachronistic, relationship. The project I propose focuses on architectural language, on how to act in the place rather than what to do in the place. For this reason, I believe that it has a markedly political valence. As the political valence of a work of any type - literary or architectural - is not determined only by the issues it deals with, but above all by the choice it operates. There is not a more purely political operation than an operation on language.

Homo Figurans, term used by Eugenio Turri in The landscape as a theater 2001.
Homo Figurans: Man as a figure among the figures of the world.