Genealogical Reasoning
Fathers and Sons_Aldo Vanini
− Cascais Citadel Hotel _ Gonçalo Byrne+João Alexandre Góis+David Sinclair
− Heidelberg Castle Visitor Center _ Max Dudler
− Moka House _ A-Cero
− House of Representation _ FORM/Kouichi Kimura Architects
− Chestnut Tree Twin Houses _ Lussi+Halter Partner AG
− Sainsbury Laboratory _ Stanton Williams Architects
− Iesu Church in Riberas de Loiola _ Rafael Moneo
Urban How_Constraints to Blessings
Over the Constraints _ Silvio Carta
− Capelinhos Volcano Interpretation Center _ Nuno Ribeiro Lopes Arquitectos
− Fontinha Wharf _ Alexandre Burmester Arquitectos Associados
− Santa Isabel Houses _ Bak Gordon Arquitectos
− Annandale House _ CO-AP
− Ceschi House _ Traverso-Vighy Architetti
− Rizza House _ Studio Inches Architettura
− Zayas House _ García Torrente Arquitectos
− Periscope House _ C+ Arquitectos
C3 no.338 (2012 #10/12)
Genealogical Reasoning
Fathers and Sons_Aldo Vanini
Friedrich Nietzsche’s idea of eternal recurrence finds particularly useful application in the discipline of architecture. The necessity of operating within the insurmountable laws of statics and the established anthropological conception of space prevents any substantially rash moves and any abandonment of the fundamental principles of design. Given these premises, what is the relationship between the various generations of architects? What is the common thread connecting the evolution from one generation of architects to the next?
In the past, the transmission of the knowledge and principles of architecture transpired through orders and treatises, as an expression of a monolithic and ontological conception of reality. Modernity and twentieth-century science have undermined this conception by rendering any continuity of rigid formal models impossible.
Beyond any more or less sophisticated formal inspiration, is the logical construction of the heritage that must be transmitted between fathers and sons, between the architects who precede and those who follow. The following examples represent some of the ways in which architecture can evolve without breaking continuity with the past.
C3 no.338 (2012 #10/12)
Genealogical Reasoning
Fathers and Sons_Aldo Vanini
Friedrich Nietzsche’s idea of eternal recurrence finds particularly useful application in the discipline of architecture. The necessity of operating within the insurmountable laws of statics and the established anthropological conception of space prevents any substantially rash moves and any abandonment of the fundamental principles of design. Given these premises, what is the relationship between the various generations of architects? What is the common thread connecting the evolution from one generation of architects to the next?
In the past, the transmission of the knowledge and principles of architecture transpired through orders and treatises, as an expression of a monolithic and ontological conception of reality. Modernity and twentieth-century science have undermined this conception by rendering any continuity of rigid formal models impossible.
Beyond any more or less sophisticated formal inspiration, is the logical construction of the heritage that must be transmitted between fathers and sons, between the architects who precede and those who follow. The following examples represent some of the ways in which architecture can evolve without breaking continuity with the past.
