| Title |
A Study on the Interior and the Exterior in the Architectures of Wright, Mies, Le Corbusier, Aalto, seen from the Point of View of the Significance of Limit and World |
| DOI |
http://dx.doi.org/10.5659/JAIK_PD.2015.31.2.215 |
| Keywords |
place ; limit ; world ; landscape ; the interior ; the exterior |
| Abstract |
This study aims to analyze the characteristics of interior and exterior spaces in the works of Wright, Mies, Le Corbusier, Aalto in light of the significance of limit and world. In modern architectures, the use of glass and steel achieves openings to the exterior in the interior. This opening to the exterior integrates the interior with the exterior by pulling external nature?namely, light and landscape?into the interior. The continuity of interior and exterior spaces in certain architectures is also associated with modern onto-cosmology, as the modern conception of objective, infinite space conceived by Descartes influences on understanding space in modern architecture. However, this spatial view prevents the interpretation of space as a place that has meaning in human lives. The existential philosophy of Heidegger mentions the spatiality of signification. Limits and worlds, which divide and interpret space, have real meaning in human lives. According to this signification of space, the characteristics of interior and exterior space as seen in the works of Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Alvar Aalto are evaluated in terms of the following three categories: opening to the exterior and homogenization of interior and exterior (Mies, Le Corbusier), opening to the exterior and maintenance of the interior as shelter (Wright), and the intermediate space between the interior and the exterior (Aalto). |