| Title |
Sonata for `Essentia` and `Existentia` in Modern Architecture |
| Abstract |
The original nature of thing is gathering and assembly, in Greek, 'sumballein'. The work of art is thing that is made, and it represents an allegory because it does not self-evident itself, namely, a 'thing-in-itself'. The same philosophical thinking is applicable to the work of architecture, because "the works of architecture are things, and their meaning consists in what they gather, that is, their world". In other words, architecture is a gathered form of basic existential language of architectural structures. It gathers and assembles the measurable and the unmeasurable language of the architectonic, and represent them in a poetically configured form. |