Architecture: Changing Spatial Transitions Between Context, Construction and Human Activities

The world is already there

1.1 In the desert: phenomenology of body and space. Space given through lightning. Invisible complexity.

1.2 the jungle: from 2D of the desert into 3D. The limiting contextual parameters, Maslow's pyramid.

1.3 The human dream of creating our own world.

Space for human activity

2.1 Spaces of human excess, the history of using materials from outside of the context as a form of luxury.

2.2 Heidegger's hut, space taken from and build out of the immediate context

Is there a grand narrative?

3.1 The patterns in nature

3.2 Self implied rules (Greek, Egyptians, Le Corbusier's eyes that don't see)

3.3 Boullee's mental image of space

The Limit

4.1 Fire (extending context)

4.2 Fear (of the unknown, the space where imagination takes over)

4.3 Demarcations (boundaries)

4.4 Death (the ultimate limit of life, and how to overcome this limitation architecturally)

It all started with a fire
5.1 Setting the scene: Chicago 5.2 Character one: The Engineer

5.3 Character two: The Inventor

5.4 Character three: The Architect

5.5 Character four: The Father of Cool

​Architectural world domination

6.1 Bauhaus - Teach them how to fish

6.2 Weissenhofsiedling - Practical experience

6.3 CIAM Congr鋊 internationaux d'architecture modern - Intellectual formulation of the idea of modern architecture

6.4 Exhibition at Museum of Modern Art, new York, A first taste of the American dream

6.5 Bye-bye Hitler, hello America!

Me, I build this world
7.1 Build anything, anywhere. Remove the context from the architectural equation
7.2 Out of the crowd, a lonely individual: Kafka & Co 7.3 The strange dialectical dance (example the movies of Jacques Tati)
Transitional space

8.1 Definition

8.2 Example: the deep transitional spaces of Seven, the human adaption machine of Woody Allen in Zelig

8.3 The nowhere is sending messages
Context welcome
9.1 Glass House Johnson
9.2 Privacy, openness
The House as a Container for the Unconscious

10.1 Japanese architecture, zenenkons, (The history of an architect in Japan, from hands to minds)

10.2 Shinohara, the anti-metabolist

10.3 Shinohara projects

10.4 Both-and Japaneseness

10.5 The house as a work of art, universe in itself

10.6 The world's most famous unknown architect: Influence of Shinohara on architecture

Conclusion: The future is not what it used to be
Architectural Scenarios

12.1 A re-introduction of the context back into architectural spaces, as a deliberately limiting element to appreciate geographical and/or climate conditions

12.2 The zero-time space. KHMER ROUGE, Superstudio, Archizoom, tracing transitional space to an extreme.

12.3 Is there a dialectic?