Аrchitecture as an applied philosophy

Abstract

Abstract: Architecture communication tools have been implemented in recent history by strategies and narrative artifices imported from cinema, comic, photo-journalism and infographic. The architect has integrated the traditional encoded drawing with more extensive narrative artifacts to expand the basin of its interlocutors and to describe underestimated aspects of architecture and design process. Through the illustration of recent significant experiences, this paper intends to highlight the great variety of images that can be attributed today to architecture and the lack of proper attention on this aspect from the side of philosophy. Having been created and fine-tuned over time in order to describe a building through its geometric features and size values, or in order to simulate its «retinal imprint» through views constructed from one single, stationary point of view, architectural draughtsmanship does not contemplate any graphic/narrative form. The dynamic perception of spaces as they are explored, the temporary nature of interiors and their furnishings, the life of those who live in buildings and leave a trace of memory that is sometimes more incisive than the buildings themselves, are all aspects that demand a time factor. Apart from cinema, only cartoonists and illustrators have the necessary visual storytelling instruments to tell what architecture and cities are really required to interpret: human dwelling.