1. Post-structuralism Post-structuralism is a breakaway from structuralism. Structuralism is the philosophy of systems, in a hierarchy that is viewed as a natural order of things. Post-structuralism values the individual thought and the subtext of the context, that is constant, never-ending and ‘coming and going’. To understand post-structuralism, one must understand structuralism. Structuralism values the binary system that defines what is the ‘truth’ and what is considered ‘false’. In Foucault’s studies about power and knowledge, those who have certain types of beliefs define the statements that are deemed ‘acceptable’. The ‘episteme’, Greek for understanding, of the time was shaped by thought and experience in the same time frame. Regarding …show more content…
In Ted Talk ‘Why the buildings of the future will be shaped by … you’, Marc Kushner talks about how buildings evoke emotions in people and how as architects the lines are blurred between what is conceived as memories and what is perceived in the past. Architecture is made to provoke an emotional response to it, and Marc describes the history of the various architectural concepts as a pendulum between what is style and what is form and what is …show more content…
The details in which it is experienced by the users ‘tie a meaning to a perception’. Aspects of details prompts the conception of architectural space with peripherical vision through massing, scale and location, by immersing oneself into the architectural space. Carlo Scarpa’s architectural works are often used as an example in tectonics in architecture. It is described best by Louis Kahn, ‘detail is the adoration of nature’. Alberti’s concinnity is reflected in Scarpa’s works as interpreted by Frascari, ‘a harmony or congruity of the various parts of a building assembled according to principles: summarized by three categories of numerus, finitio and collocatio.’ Scarpa’s eye for detail brings a narration of the process, its location and its scale. His details have brought solutions to practical, historical, social and individual functions to the