Topic > architecture - 548

An architect's goal is to design for time with an understanding of the relationship between space and activity. In his essay Space and Events, Bernard Tschumi states: “There is no space without even, there is no architecture without program.” He then continues with: “Architecture cannot be dissociated from the events that 'happen' in it” (Tschumi, 139). Spaces have always been assimilated with references to the past, which create a sort of familiarity and attachment to the past that prevents time from moving forward. Because of this assumption about form, function and meaning; so architecture was limited by this familiarity and these assumptions. The history of architecture has been a history of styles. Through propaganda, the most significant ideas became the style of that period influencing architecture. “Modern architecture in its many manifestations seemed to thrive best in the tension between public and private interests” (Curtis, 684). Whether through photography, magazines or literature, the mediatization of architectural activity has been...