La simmetria come procedura essenziale ma “dimentica” dell’Architettura

• Main Author: Renato Capozzi
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: S&F_scienzaefilosofia.it 2014-12-01
• Series: S&F_scienzaefilosofia.it
• Subjects: Architecture; Simmetry
• Online Access: http://www.scienzaefilosofia.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/res686074_05-CAPOZZI.pdf

The essay confirms the inorganic nature of architecture and, in this way, clarifies the particular mimesis that architecture lays not so much with nature and its forms but with itself. There are multiple links with the philosophy that recognizes his role “regent and foundational”. Describing the theoretical dimension of architecture, the contribution reflects on the particular role that theory assumes in the art of building as a way of knowledge and observation and verification in buildings. The role of symmetry – understood as the proportion in the historical development of the art of building since the ancient treatise writers, during the Renaissance until the modern reformulation, to get to the forgetfulness of the role that this compositional procedure assumes in the contemporary world – is discussed. The current condition is unfortunately directed more to the reductio ad imaginem; it should be again addresses to the construction of adequate space and the selection of appropriate forms to represent, through the expressiveness of the construction, reason and essence of architecture.