Architecture and mathematics as inauguration of ‘Das da sein’ of the 'subject'.

Belderbos, Marc
(2013) Nexus conference VII CONFERENCIA INTERNACIONAL DE MATEMÁTICA Y DISEÑO — Location: Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo Universidad Nacional de Tucumán Tucumán - Argentina (2.September.2013)

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This essay will explore the proximity between architecture and mathematics, as ‘notion and operation’, and where they differ. This by an elaboration of this notions and by a few examples trough History. This essay will explore very close formulations on ‘what about is’ architecture and ‘what about are’ mathematics for the mind as human and for the body as human or for the minded body as human. So this essay will not explore how there is mathematics in architecture but how architecture is a very close ‘notion and operation’ to mathematics. This essay will examines the point at which the body becomes human trough architecture and the mind becomes human trough mathematics. Architecture and mathematics are strictly anthropological. The ‘human’ will be identified as ‘the there’ – in a circulation of the sense – from where he unendingly opposes to the real (not the reality) the affirmative interrogation of the artefacts. There are two primitive artefacts: architecture and mathematics Architecture as a material necessity – a metonym for the stance of ‘the there’ i.e. the ‘human’. This contiguity provokes an operation of incorporation: ‘the there’ is the circulation of the sense at the moment at which the human senses make sense. This primarily consists of ‘thing-ness’ or dignity: in other words, the real (not realistic) intention of architecture. Mathematics as an abstract (not extracted) necessity of the materiality – an abstract metonym for the stance of ‘the there’ i.e. the ‘human’ in the real. This contiguity provokes an operation of incorporation of the mind: ‘the there’ is the circulation of the sense at the moment at which the human senses make sense. This primarily consists of ‘thing-ness’ or dignity of the mind: in other words, the real (not realistic) intention of mathematics. The essential notions deployed in this exercise are: stances, human as dis-stances . Or architecture and mathematics as ‘stances at distances’ . The essay also encompasses the notion that architecture, mathematics, the human, emptiness and well-being are verbs, or systems of articulation, and that architecture and mathematics are both a thing for the body, or an ‘infinition’ for the body that make the body ‘minded’ which is circulation of sense. Architecture is number as mathematics.
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Belderbos, M. (2013). Architecture and mathematics as inauguration of ‘Das da sein’ of the ‘subject’. Journal of Mathematics & Design, special issue(special issue in2014), 286 .... https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/180466 (Original work published 2014)