Starkey, Bradley (2006) Models, architecture, levitation: design based research into post secular architecture. Journal of Architecture, 11 (3). pp. 323-328. ISSN 1360-2365
Creators: | Starkey, Bradley |
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Description/Abstract: | Architects theorise their work through the practices of writing and drawing, but they largely ignore theorisation of, or through the architectural model. Whilst architectural drawings are often discussed in relation to ideas, architectural models are more likely to be discussed in relation to matter. The division between intellectual and material aspects of architecture can be traced back to the Italian Renaissance when architectural labour became associated with intellectual rather than manual labour. Architectural models have tended to escape theoretical With reference to mediaeval models of divinity, the paper discusses how the mind was considered superior to matter because it permitted access to the spiritual. Whilst we live With reference to a levitating architectural model constructed by the author, the paper discusses how the strategy of design by making challenges the hierarchy of the intellectual over the material by adopting an embodied approach. Furthermore it examines how the division and dissociation between spiritual anti material dimensions might be rethought through the notion of 'ensoulment'. |
Item Type: | Article |
Date: | June 2006 |
Identification Number: | DOl: 10.1080/13602360600931508 |
Uncontrolled Keywords or tags : | architectural models, architecture |
Depositing User: |
Mary-Anne Spalding
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Date Deposited: | 07 Feb 2011 13:07 |
Last Modified: | 25 Jul 2012 14:09 |
URI: | https://research.uca.ac.uk/id/eprint/662 |
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