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The Idea of Virtue in Architecture 17-9-2012 the Theme 2 Craftsmanship: Intelligence and Making, the idea of love in architecture jctv argument Wanda Landowska’s hand in experiential terms words are rather poor In what ways do we capture experience? Pictures and words and all that.. Chengde, Hebei Province, Pule Si Fan Kuan 1000-1031, Travellers Among Streams and Mountains 1 17-9-2012 Tung Chi’i Chang: “Painting is no Someone with a small vocabulary equal to mountains and water for has a small capacity for expressing the wonder of scenery, but his experience in words and a small mountains and water are no equal capacity for processing and to painting for the sheer marvels of nuancing that experience. brush and ink”[1] Someone with a university But this means very little. He is still education, according to research capable of having that experience… done in1995 article has an average vocabulary of 8000 words… He can describe every and any experience, perception, feeling but With this he is able to describe and only on the basis of a selective process his experience. This means process: he selects for his he can only describe his experience description what he finds selectively important and what he has words for 2 17-9-2012 What you cannot capture in words, The whole of his experience is still remains part of your always larger and yet his experience. What does this mean? description is also richer than the It does not mean that words are experience itself, it is received in useless, it means that words the context of the receiver’s cannot be expected to capture experience and appropriated everything of bodily experience. The case of the common seasquirt (zeeschede, genus Ascidia) Body [AND] Environment I = me and my body in my environment Thinking presupposes the body.. But how? That brings us to the peculiar intelligence that is craft or techné 3 17-9-2012 Craft (ambachtelijkheid) or techné, is bodily experience and bodily intelligence in the making of things: knowing what you are doing without necessarily being able to capture the whole in words… So what is this craft intelligence? the art of thinking about the making, the love of precision, the feel of having got it right, the desire for perfection, craft is thought of the practised body 4 17-9-2012 OED: Craft Noun & Verb noun verb • an activity involving skill in making • [with object] things by hand: • exercise skill in making (an object), • the craft of cobbling typically by hand: • [in singular] the skills in carrying out • he crafted the chair lovingly one’s work: • (as adjective, with submodifier • the artist learned his craft in Holland crafted) • the members of a skilled profession. • a beautifully crafted object • (the Craft) • figurative • the brotherhood of Freemasons. • Crichton knows how to craft a tale, • 2 [mass noun] skill used in deceiving one that keeps the reader turning the others: pages • her cousin was not her equal in guile • (as adjective, with submodifier and evasive craft crafted) • 3 (plural ) a boat or ship: • a carefully crafted peace process • sailing craft • an aircraft or spaceship. Jean Luc Godard Alphaville, L’amour Love • agape, (ἀγάπη agápē) love of the soul • eros, (ἔρως érōs) passionate longing passionate love, with sensual desire and longing. Plato refined his own definition. Although eros is initially felt for a person, with contemplation it becomes an appreciation of the beauty within that person, or even becomes appreciation of beauty itself. Eros helps the soul recall knowledge of beauty and contributes to an understanding of spiritual truth. Lovers and philosophers are all inspired to seek truth by eros. • philia, (φιλία philía) dispassionate virtuous love, was a concept addressed and developed by Aristotle. It includes loyalty to friends, family, and community, and requires virtue, equality, and familiarity. • storge, (στοργή storgē) parental love • xenia, (ξενία xenía), hospitality • theoria TheoriaTheoria (θεωρία) Eros Theoria stands for Hamlet: Diodima, the midwife, describes eros as a half What a piece of work is a man, how noble god. His father was “Contrivance the son of Passionate Sympathetic Contemplation in reason, how invention” and his mother was “Poverty” who infinite in faculties, in form and moving schemes to lie with the drunken god and begets how express and Eros. Eros halfway between man and god spends admirable, in action how like an angel, in his whole life struggling through cunning means to apprehension how like possess that what he desires. a god! the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals—and yet, Love is the active agent in your struggle to achieve to me, what is this quintessence of dust? your dreams. Man delights not me— nor woman neither, though by your smiling you seem to say so. Rosencrantz: My lord, there was no such stuff in my thoughts. Hamlet Act 2, scene 2, 303–312 29 30 5 17-9-2012 Spinoza • To love is to take pleasure in seeing touching feeling, knowing or imagining, (André Comte- Sponville after Stendhal. • Desire not a lack it is capacity, desire is the very essence of man and desire is a capacity, a power we have. Love is a joy • Depression and disgust happens not when we desire, but when we lack desire… filosofie = philia sophos: a method to love • To love is to derive pleasure and joy from wisdowm something. the The art of bestowing thought evidence Or the bodily geometry of love 6 17-9-2012 Into Great Silence 7 17-9-2012 Andrea Palladio, High Altar of the Cathedral of AWN Pugin, St Giles, Cheadle, Staffordshire, 1840-6 Vicenza, 1534-36, may be earliest work Etienne-Louis Boullée, Ontwerp voor een Metropool, 1781-82, interieur Donato Bramante, S Maria presso S Satiro, Milan, 1480, apse Filippo Brunelleschi, Capella dei Pazzi, S Croce, 1430 Brunelleschi, Oude Sacristy, San Lorenzo 8 17-9-2012 Guarino Guarini, S Lorenzo, interior, Turin, 1668-87 03 Jacques-Germain Soufflot, Panthéon, Parijs, 1757-1790, Binnenaanzicht AWN Pugin, Contrasted Royal Chapels, Contrasts, 1836 and 1841 Andrea Palladio, High Altar of the Cathedral of Vicenza, 1534-36, may be earliest work Antonio Beduzzi, Hoogaltaar te Melk, 1727-35 Asam, The assumption of the virgin, Rohr, 1717-25 9 17-9-2012 Francisco de Hurtado Izquierdo, Granada, sacristie van kartuizerklooster, 1732 Narciso Tomé, El Trasparente, Toledo, 1721-32 10 17-9-2012 Baltahsar Neumann, Chapel of the Wurzburg Residenz, 1732-44 Shaker, Meeting House, Pleasant Hill, Shaker, Church Family Dwelling, 1830-31 Hancock Mass meeting room Kentucky, 1820, meeting room Libera, Exhibition of the Tenth Anniversary of the Fascist Revolution, Sacrario, Alvaro Siza, Church, Marco de Canavezes, POrtugal, 1990-96, interior 1932 11 17-9-2012 John Pawson, Novy Dvur Plecnick Le Corbusier & Iannis Xenakis Sainte Marie de la Tourette, 1953-61, crypte Berthelot, Haiti, House 12 17-9-2012 Pocomania Altar, Jamaica, 1997 Jamaica Journal, Vol 3, 1969, Pocomania Altar, diagram by E S Linda Butler, Tokonoma with scrolls Myokian tea room, Taisan, Oyamazaki Town, Kyoto Gianlorenzo Bernini, The Cathedra Peter St of The Cathedra Bernini, Imperial Palace, Kyoto, stone garden 13 17-9-2012 Tadao Ando, Soseikan Tadao Ando, Soseikan Yamaguchi House and Teahouse 3, 1981 Yamaguchi House and Teahouse, 1981 Shelves Tadao Ando, Soseikan Yamaguchi House and Teahouse 2, 1981 Shelves. 14 .
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