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Espaces textuels, emprunts d’architecture
Textual Spaces, Architecture Borrowings

Author(s): Florian Bulou Fezard
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Architecture
Published by: Editura Politehnium
Keywords: : Literature; Architecture; Scale; Analogy; Reading Experience;

Summary/Abstract: Architecture — and by metonymy writing – is made of compartments, intervals and openings. In that respect, the architect Peter Eisenman and the philosopher Jacques Derrida question the analogical relations of architecture to writing; each being an “inside” that the reader invests by the shaped interstices. In that way, this “textual inside” is allowed by the displacements of the reader, it is there for the reader to make his way through it. We would add: a way of seeing. As a before of the architecture, the textual space conceived as such assumes the role of an exploration phase on a reduced scale and becomes a free space, an imaginary world that the architect will not always reveal in its built form, because of a lack of technical or economic possibilities. If the architect who writes does so from what he knows about the user's movements in space, he can then consider the text as an entity that does not need to be read. On the one hand, reading automatisms make textual space a place that is visually scanned, or even photographed in its entirety: the scale of the text allows it. On the other hand, the reader travels through the text, shapes his reading path through the image of a virtual line, and creates inherent connections to his reading experience. The reader doesn't browse a text as he practices a built-up space, but he loses himself willingly, interactions exist. So, how are these texts perceived as architectural spaces, then those conceived as such, characterized ?

  • Issue Year: 3/2019
  • Issue No: 05+06
  • Page Range: 53-58
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: French