Means to a beginning
M Pimlott (TU Delft - Situated Architecture)
K.M. Havik – Promotor (TU Delft - Situated Architecture)
Daniel Rosbottom – Promotor (TU Delft - Situated Architecture)
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Abstract
The dissertation considers attitudes regarding how the architect might begin. The notion of beginning, or finding the means to a beginning, is contingent upon that which presents itself to the architect upon a first encounter. Examinations of urban conditions reveal ideologies and intentions directed towards shaping subjectivities. They also reveal the cultural specificity of appearances, which, as outward manifestations of intent, are utterances, like those of language: imperfect representations of ideas. The central part of the work concerns the approach to the artefact, and proposes a reconciliation between phenomenology and material culture, through consideration of the presence of representation. I contend that appearances are representation’s threshold, which, through acute attention, yields access to their essential nature, and to the real. The meeting with the real demands the architect’s suspension of impulse to projection, replacing it with something closer to empathy....