JOINT - critical junctions in architecture

• Main Author: Usdu, Canan
• Other Authors: Architecture
• Format: Others
• Published: Virginia Tech 2014
• Subjects: joint; space; air; in- between; urban; visual joint; material; nature; earth
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10919/41895; http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-04072003-201027/

Man still breathes both in and out. When is architecture going to do the same?... Take of your shoes and walk along a beach through the oceanâ s last thin sheet of water gliding landwards and seawards. You feel reconciled in a way you wouldnâ t feel if there were a forced dialogue between you and either one or the other of these great phenomena. For here, in - between land and ocean - in this in-between realm, something happens to you that is quite different from the sailorâ s nostalgia. No landward yearning from the sea, no seaward yearning from the land. No yearning for the alternative -no escape from one into the other. Awareness of this in - between (in - between awareness) is essential. The ability to detect associative meanings simultaneously does not yet belong to our mental equipment. Since, however, the meaning of every real articulated in - between place is essentially a multiple one, we shall have to see to it that it does. Awareness of the in - between creeps into the technology of construction. It will transform not only our ideas as to what we should make, but also as to how we shall make it -including our technological approach. It will be there in the body, the members and the joints of whatever we make... Aldo Van Eyck === Master of Architecture