Experiences
constructed
Architecture themes and aphorisms
Emilio Faroldi
Libria Editions
Melfi (PZ)
1999
ABSTRACT
The book collects some aphorisms written between 1996 and 1999. The resulting narrative is intended to stimulate, in synthetic form, reflections on the fundamental themes of architecture. In this context, built experiences constitute the material and phenomenological expression within which themes and aphorisms come to life, sometimes in explicit form, sometimes in metaphorical form. The conception of the work of art as a unique and unrepeatable event constitutes an act of interpretation that, although personal, constantly refers back to memory, to the already sedimented, to past experiences. Architecture becomes a narration, a text that speaks, an archive to be consulted in order to realise anew. The investigation of the panorama belonging to the past, the identification of analogical references, the definition of variants and invariants of architecture find their foundations in the desire to grasp in diachronic form the experience acquired, bringing it up to date, transforming one's own idea of architecture into an evolutionary form. In these work notes, the experiences built and the themes connected to them highlight the synthesis of the design choices which, backwards, claim the translation of the how and the why: of how something is made concrete and why it is made, of its technical code and its eschatological dimension. The aphoristic expression becomes the medium for this thought; the images represent its materialisation.
