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Architecture in development is constantly being repeated: the twin works of Piranesi-Hilerseimer

Nika Adamantia, Gyftopoulos Christos

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This thesis attempts to investigate modern architecture and concurrently its contradictions when its idea takes shape. The modern architecture is recognized in the idea of M. Tafuri’s utopia, as presented in his book Architecture and Utopia: Design and Capitalist Development. This can be construed as a tendency realizable in itself, free to develop itself. In this direction, in order to conceive modern architecture as an ongoing process, it has to constitute an autonomous entity, «intent upon breaking the relationships of the existing order in order to recover them at a higher and different level». In other words, it has to work on two levels: to constitute the result of processes and at the same time their cause. To the extent that every autonomous architectural intervention succeeds and revises the preceding one, the development manifests itself in their qualitative difference. As a result, this is transfigured in a study about the constant reconstruction of the architectural ensemble, meaning that it acquires an urban character. In the city is identified the tragedy of architecture, as the consequence of its desire for constant development, is the return to its absolute form; in a form without utopia. So at the same time, architecture will be examined as a practice of elimination of any difference. Towards this direction, the architectural study has a double approach: one in development and one in repetition.In order to figure this urban study, we refer to the moments of birth and death of modernity, in the way M. Tafuri dates it from the Enlightenment to Modernism. Accordingly, the notions of model and commodity arise, for the emergence of the architectural element in a twofold way. In this thesis, we firstly present model and commodity capable of constantly developing their structure, when they transfigure themselves from physical representations of an origin to principles themselves for their own production. However, in their forthcoming urban expression, whereas they appear as exemplars for the city’s reconstruction, the cities depose them from their autonomy, in a way that model and commodity can simply repeat their structure.

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