FENOMENOLOGIJA IMAGINACIJE GASTONA BAŠLARA NA PRIMERU DEMATERIJALIZACIJE SAVREMENE ARHITEKTONSKE FORME
GASTON BACHELARD`S PHENOMENOLOGY OF IMAGINATION AS EXEMPLIFIED BY DEMATERIALIZATION OF CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURAL FORM

Summary/Abstract: This paper investigates the potential of Gaston Bachelard’ phenomenology of imagination in the context of contemporary changes in the relationship between architectural form and architectural materials. Considering that contemporary architectural discourse is based on negation of any determined form of appearance, former modernist approach to architectural form nowadays gives way to architectural materials by which the `disappearing` form is at the same time integrated and disintegrated. Observing dematerialization of architectural form as a symbolic, sensitive and meta-poetic category, this paper identifies the influences of Bachelard's phenomenology of imagination as a suitable philosophic and model platform. The priority that Bachelard gives to material rather than to formal imagination represents the backbone for understanding physical and spatial presence in the field of architecture. By accepting material imagination as ability to `deform` perceptive images, the paper aims to identify the mechanisms for transposing such philosophical premise to a corresponding architectural domain. Dematerialization of architectural form is, therefore, observed as a process of overcoming our unconscious attempt to attach to a usual perceptual phenomenon. On one hand, such act results in denial of any visual determination of architectural form, while on the other hand, it relativizes former `moral` value of materials through the inversion of archetypal notion of their application.

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