Espaço entre espaços. Da natureza, Homem e arquitetura

Abstract

Starting from point zero, where the natural space and the physical condition formulate the inexorable circumstances for the physical being's existence, the human desire to act in this environment and to satisfy the needs that arise from the physical and metaphysical individual condition grows. In this sense, the human being resorts to the artificial environment and finds in the construction of space the answer to the way of being-in-the-world1. We are motivated to understand what this space is; in which conjunctures it appears, how human beings perceive and experience it, and how its construction is understood and practiced. Considering six different authors, among them architects, professors and critics - Juhani Pallasmaa, Luiz Santamaria, Herman Hertzberger, Jacques Lucan, Hans Van der Laan and Rudolf Arnheim -, this study evokes the experience of architecture as a spatial and existential one, the perception of physical and symbolic matter, and the problems of the architecture activity and the teaching/learning of the discipline as a system/method. This theoretical project, therefore, intersect the six authors, the restlessness resulted from the last few years as an architecture student and the motivation (or innocence) to face architecture as a discipline capable of provoking in human being the consciousness of existing and inhabit the world.