Emily Speed
The relationship between the human body and architecture
Gordon Marta Clarke – Splitting (1974)
- Architecture as monolithic
- Active destruction of buildings
Architectures as both boundary and a structure
What is a boundary?
- No boundaries in nature that isn’t porous on some nature
How this this related to human nature?
- Permeated from every direction – a more representational/symbolic space rather then its factual existence
- A breech of the symbolic space of the home
The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard
- House as the womb – sense of stable subjectivity similar to the sense of a stable home-space – a continuity between the two
David Lynch – ‘Lost Highway’ (1997)
- ‘The ides of the uncanny’
- Building as a ‘fortress’
Modernist Architecture – Mies van der Rohe
A remove anything ‘uncanny’ from the space of the home (comments by Walter Benjamin)
The City in Pieces – Victor Burgin
- A discussion of the psychological and physical boundaries and its instability through Autism and Schizophrenia as polar opposites in personal experience of the world
- Everyone shifts between the sorts of states on a daily basis
Human subject – the notion of self as ‘unified’ but instead scatted as form begins to dissolves as boundaries disappear
Dan Graham
Glass as a division between the interior and exterior
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