本質的言語への探究 ジャン・コスとリュック・スカイテン / The Search for the Fundamental Language
(1987) Supesu Dezain — n° 269, p. 52-53 (1987)
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- It is crucial when building to establish an architectural language. This setting, forces the architect to search for the fundamental language: the one symbolizing the primary quest of man for a shelter and its relationship with the environment. To seek for the primary language refers to the theoreticians of Classical architecture and their endeavor to define what Marc-Antoine Laugier calls: "the small rustic hut ... the model from which all the imagined all the architectural splendors were designed". And adds: "It's getting closer in the performance of the simplicity of this first model, which avoids the shortcomings essential that we grasp the true perfections". Laugier's famous illustration of the first hut shows a strictly proportioned triangular pediment of dead branches placed onto a grouping of romantically drawn of trees. Such an image directly raises the primary dichotomy of mankind, where man untiringly oscillates between a vision of a world that is seen as clear; well-ordered; quantifiable dream, and an other, organic; mysterious; unquantifiable reality. As in both cases, the relationship between man-nature is always depending upon the first behavioral factor of the pair: man. Subsequently, man's perception of nature is wide and polarized: even among the most Utopian visions, one can distinguish the avenues of what the faction known as Cubist or Rationalist believes the nature to be abstracted, and the Romanticist who believes in a mystic nature. However, to overcome vain quarrels, such as the long debated problem of the transposition of such a stone "cabin" originally built of wood, may help to restore the full expression of the primary language.
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Capron, J.-L. (1987). 本質的言語への探究 ジャン・コスとリュック・スカイテン / The Search for the Fundamental Language. Supesu Dezain, 269, 52-53. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/32440 (Original work published 1987)