To inaugurate das Da Sein
(2012) Human body in the visual disciplines — Location: Pretoria (25.May.2012)
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- This research brings in words the discipline of mind which permits to think in which conditions, architecture can be thought as such in it relation to the human body. The paper explores the important notions which can lead to accept that there is a relation between the human body and architecture. How and why is architecture a strictly ‘human’ issue. ‘Human’ is, for that purpose, rigorously distinguished from ‘animal’. It leads to think ‘human’ as being ‘at dis-stance’. That can be interpreted by ‘the human is there’ (which is not the cas of ‘animal’) and even to be ‘the there’. In German ‘das da sein’ as Heidegger explains it. Architecture will be indicated as what is necessary to be ‘the there’. It will be explained in that very restricted action: to make hold ‘the there’ in a very inaugural way. And we will understand this holding as ‘dignity’. Dignitas is one of the main notion of the ‘de re aedificatoria’ of Alberti. Dignity is a silent and mute corporeal enjoyment. There is the body. Maybe we will see architecture as ‘what makes body’.
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Belderbos, M. (2012). To inaugurate das Da Sein. Human body in the visual disciplines, Pretoria. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/180883