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    71 visualizações4 páginas

    1angelic View Fifth Column Marco Frascari Benjamin Walter

    Enviado por

    Marco Frascari
    an old essay on architectural drawings

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    Marco Fraseari 8 Angelic View: Architectural Drawings as To consolidate his theory of image-construction, Giambatista ‘Vico promoted "mental glossary of images" (Vico 1744:1,9;#473.482), «thesauri of intelligible univereals embodied in meaningful theoretical images. Angels belongs to this Vieonian compandiumofimages. Angels face not things but are like the things themselves, Massimo Caciar (1988155) has pointed out that “only the angel fee from demonic destiny poses the problem of representation.” Angels have the consistency ofthe thing since they have the symbolic primacy. From this angelic point of view itis then possible to state that in architecture each angle is en angel Demonstrating a possible agenda of architectural esearch, this statement isi itself an image which belongs to Vico's glossary of images. This is a research, which wes imaginative knowledge instead of normative data. ‘Theinstrumental representation ‘angle’ asimage belongs to the Viconian mental glossary of theoretical images when itis connected with its symbolic representation “angel”. The two terms--angle and angel share apossible common etymological root. Suggesting the procedure for finding guidance in the stars, this root originales in a idiom used by the carly Mediterranean sailors. The imagining of angels, guiding essences, was a way of Binding angles necessary to the sailors to determine the direction for reaching safely the Ind. In architecture this traditional chiasm of symbolic and instrumental representation is recorded~in an oblique way--by Vitruvius Book], v4), inhis explanation of the planning, ofthe ‘angles’ of cities, using as epitome, the Tower of Winds in Athens ‘This Hellenistic edifice inconporates both the representations ofthe winds as figures of angels and asthe angles of the direction. This etymological ‘explanation belongs tothe realm of necessary fables? Such fables are associations of imaginative class concepts (Vico's gener fantastici) by Which ite possible to produce significant anfacts. An instance of the fruitful power of the angelic images i the linguistic growing of the

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