Festival dell'Architettura Magazine (Jan 2019)

Words for Buildings. The narrative space, the build words

  • Gianluca Burgio

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1283/fam/issn2039-0491/n45-2018/206
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 0, no. 45/46
pp. 48 – 55

Abstract

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The aim of this article is to understand the complex, sometimes problematic relationship that exists between words and concepts, on the one hand, and architectures, on the other. This relationship must be deepened and critically problematized to understand - and possibly avoid - a phenomenon that is quite typical of our time: it seems that words and things have moved away. In some cases, the subtle and ineffable connection that linked the evanescent sound of the word and the material consistency of the building seems to have disappeared.

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