
On the Non-Complete
On the Non-Complete in Visionary Architecture
Amos Bar-Eli(Author)
LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
Published on 28. July 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
164 pages
978-3-8454-2291-6 (ISBN)
Description
Architecture adopts a preference for completion, stability, and unified objects andconcepts. Reality, rather paradoxically, suggests partiality and discontinuity of space,experience, and conciseness. Unity, harmony, and finality compose the values accordingto which architecture is measured. The tendency and the urge to create according to thesevalues is referred to as the complete. Visionary architecture uses the same tools ofexpression as architecture, but is free from the consequences of the built. As such it canstand in a polar position to built architecture and suggest an opposing value system.Fragmentary, ruin-ness, and infinity - the work refers to this value system as Noncomplete.The research examines, through theoretical and visual examples, the concept of Noncompletearchitecture, tracing its existence in Visionary architectural history, and pointingout its main attributes. The research points it not merely as un-finished but rather as aneffort in establishing the work in a permanent state of incompletion.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Germany
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 220 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 11 mm
Weight
262 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-8454-2291-6 (9783845422916)
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Amos Bar-Eli is an architect. Graduated from Pratt Institute NY, he holds a Masters degree in Architecture from the Technion, Haifa, Israel. Amos is a faculty lecturer in the department of Interior Design in HIT - Holon, Israel. Aside from having an active design studio Amos researches theory and history of architecture.