Ardeth #14
Description
In the realm of hard sciences, time is seen as moving forward towards the future, providing a framework for navigating the entropy and disorder of systems. Time is seen subjectively in the humanities, as Bergson describes it in terms of recursive cycles exposed via sentient experience. From both angles, humanity is inevitably susceptible to time; either they die from entropic dispersion or depersonalizing repetition. Much like science, myth reminds us that time ultimately devours life. But it also points to a possible escape: though Cronus eats his offspring, except for the youngest one, Zeus, who is saved by a stratagem "devised" by his mother Rhea - that is, replacing the baby with a stone. The image of the father suppressing the next generation is then replaced by the myth of the future emerging from the past, when all children are regurgitated by means of another of Zeus' tricks. Thus, the myth implies that intellect (the trick) and intellectual works (the stones) can transcend time: if human beings cannot endure their extreme transience, they can endure the lesser transience of their "constructions" in time. Born to last either physically or as collective memory, the very essence of architecture engages in a (titanic) survival endeavour. Yet, in an era anchored to the myths of perennial youth, shall we also allow the right to be forgotten?
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Persons
a cura di Pavel Kuznetsov, Manuela Raitano
Content
Note from the Director Ilaria Valente
Timing, Spacing, Architecting The Editorial Board of "Ardeth"
Taking Time for a Dialogue About Time Manuela Raitano, Pavel Kuznetsov
Museum/Bówùguän. A Conversation with Liu Jiakun about Time Issues in Architecture in China Edited by Maurizio Meriggi
Between Time and Style. A Conversation with Alice Roegholt on the Het Schip Museum and the "Courage to Look Forward" Edited by Francesca Frassoldati, Elena Guidetti
Persistenza e vulnerabilità. Gli strati contemporanei nel patrimonio architettonico Camila Burgos Vargas
Oltre la dicotomia tra autenticità e riproducibilità. Quali prospettive per i luoghi dell'eterotopia? Daniele Dabbene
Behind That Locked Door: Archives Between Hoarding and Surveillance Filippo Balma
Temporal-spatial Paradigms in Chinese Domestic Architecture Monica Naso, Michele Bonino
The Pace of Change: The Diverging Development of Tossi's Built Environment and Living Community Trias Mahendarto
Futures Digging Up Present: Towards the New General Regulatory Plan of Turin Valerio Della Scala
Reading Mutations: An Urban Diagram of Time Rossella Gugliotta
L'ombra come processo sottrattivo Antonello Marotta
Ti con zero. La vita oltre la vita: catastilosi di una struttura modulare aperta Federica Morgia
Reviews
Wim Wenders, Anselm - Das Rauschen der Zeit Alessandra Lancellotti
Sofie De Caigny, Hülya Ertas, Bie Plevoets (eds.), As Found. Experiments in Preservation Paolo Bianco
Paola Viganò, Il Giardino Biopolitico Zoé Marraffa
Domenico Palombi, I Fori prima dei Fori. Storia urbana dei quartieri di Roma antica cancellati per la realizzazione dei Fori imperiali Cecilia Visconti
