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    ANCHORING Steven Holl iting’ rlaiontoarcreett ator ony an un ‘aan miror tobe held upto evidence tis rather inaworloss slonce thar we have ebest chance tostumbieinto that zone comprised ot space, ig, and mater that is archtacte. Atmough they fal shot of achtectural eudence, words present promise. The work is forced Yo caty ever when \wods themselves cannot Wort ae aowspoint- Ingintheright direction: taken togethr they form map ol architecturalintntons. Her, then, are e07e excerpted thoughts that have, ove th pastion year, acted as catalysts tor the projects hat ol ANCHORING. Arntecure is bound to stuaton Une mus. paneng,scuptur, tm, and Hera {ure aconstucton (non able sinerwined with tne experience o place. The ste of abiding is ‘more than @ mere ngresentn ts conception. is ‘ts physical and metaphysical foundation “The reslution of Be urcona! aspects of ste and bulling, the wists, sun angles, revlon fané access, are the "psics" that demand the “metaphysics” of architecture, Tirough a fk, an ‘exonded motive. a bung is more than some: ‘Wing merely ashioneaor ne ste, Buling transcends physical ane functional urements by usieg wth apace, by gathering to meaning ofa stuaton. AicMoctre dove not 50 ‘much nude on alandscape as i'seves 0 pian 't tuminaion of sts nota snl epeaton ots "vomax 1 veweal an aspect oa place may ‘not confi is “appoaranca” Henoe the habitual ‘ways o secing may walle interrupted ‘Nehitectte and ste shots have an experi {ilconnecion,a metaphysical tok, a poot nk. Wen a work of rchtacure succastuly uses ‘a bulding and stuaton thd conéion emerges. In is Pe enty, denotaton and connotaton merge: express i inked o dea whic joined 1b sie. The suggestive and motot are manfots aspects ofan intention ‘Abusing has one se. Int one situation, is intenlons a eolectea. Bulding ane site have ‘been interdependent since the beginning of Ar chitgcture. in the past, this connection was rmanies: wihout eonscous intanen though the use cflocalmaterias anderat, andy anassocia. tion ofthe landscape wih events of hsiny and ry. Today the ink between site and architecture ‘must be found in new ways, which are pat of & ‘constructive ranstavmation in made ite, ‘das cutvated rom he tit perception ofthe sit, mediatons ypon inal houghs,or recon deraton of exising topography can become tho framewor or nvemion. This mods of mention is fooused though aalatve space, as distinc fom Universal space. ts 9 a Bounded domain, Ar ‘titer is an extonsion: a mositicaion tab- ‘ishing absolute earings relative to apace, Even nen now work an iverson ot herent cont ‘ins, ts order atoms to embody an aspect. of iMuminate a spectie meaning dent kom gone: rales of abevact space. An ideal ens the speci: an abet in he lave, ‘Standing fn the courtyard of the Nunnery in Uma tes transparent. furan unknown The ath of the sun is petecty ordered withthe ar Ctaecture, The rare vaws align wah the dant his: Descending heough te bal cour, acancing the “House of Tuto," and looking again toward the great couryard—he experienc rancor a chitecture beauty. Architecureandsite are pieno- ‘menologicay koe ‘AtLouls Kahn's Sak ns, theres tine of dy nen te un, rotting one ocean, merges wit Hot electing onthe rivet of water in the trough bisecting the central coun. Ocean ard courtyard reused bythe ohonomenon of sunght teliecing on water. Archectre ard nature are joineein a metaphysis of place ‘Aeros vast, fecund valley in Orogen 2 gua erm clings 1 the edge ofthe Bonediine ‘Monastery on Mt Angel Approaches rom the gar ‘en of th hillop cists, anpears a8 alow one ‘ory bulting of modest consequence. Onoein- 2, tunis ina burst of space splayed outars and downward, Keely engaged inthe rling pane ramaot earn and ky Aalto completed he edge! the monastie platea and creatd a seene cas cade of space fr etuty ard contemplation. The (qalies ofthe arcttocre are tused wit the quale and mearing ots stuaton, “The grard svines of se, Japan are roca structed every menty years on adjacentstes; och templahas wo stes Since 4 B.C. ts lous act has had a mystetous power mos! manifest inthe ‘vacant ste witht stone pads rady to receve the Agjacont tepie aocorcing tthe ext erty year tye, Time and sta ara futher engaged the ‘Sakaki—the paper emaments hanging on the sates and tences that are replaced ash ovary on ays. ‘Adaerto Lbera’s Malapare residence in (Cao stands ata mysterious example of oder in space ight, and ino, ts simole walls merge wih the rock and ets ane rie rom the Mediterranean Ike a stange plation offering ist. te sun. Without she, simost witout identiable eleva tons, keanmeete wnt stb jumoingover time IDEA AND PHENOMENA. The essence ola work ‘of acheturs isan erganicrk between corcopt and form. Preces cannot be subwactd or aed witout upseting fundamental properties. A con capt, whether a rationally expla statement of subjectve domenstraton, esabishes an order, ol of outa ltd principle ‘Wain the phenomena of experience in a bit constuction, te etganisng deals ahicen tread connecting sparse part wth exact ntonton Al though the experience of sem rarsparan planes 1 glass defining @ space wih a gow of ight pre sents a sensory eaperince ireduoeable 10 2 concept, this expressions nota gap be twoen conaapt and phenomena, ut the range or fold where various covctusions intersect. The insrtvnng of Gea and phenomena oe curs whes abuldng fe realize, Btore begining, arstecture's metaphysical skeleton of tine lh, space, ana mater remain unordered. Modes of composition ae open: ine, plane, OM. ar proporton await achvation. Wen se, cutie, ar program are gwen, an order, an ea may be foumed. Yettha eas ony concestion. The vansparency of s membrane, the chalky utness ofa wat, the glossy rellecion of opaque (lass, and bam of suright intrest n rete cal flatonships that form the paricular ex: pesence ofa place. Materia nterocking wih he porcever sserser provide ho otal thatmovesus beyond ace 9m o tatty. From neatly. ca cavty, and wanspareney to haronoss, elastic fad dampness. the nap ream opens. ‘An arehtecure of mata actin ams fr 3 poets ofroveaire’IMarinHeegge. whic ue an inepraton of onary. Data, ths pots reveal, nterplays inte scaled dissonance ‘wihlarge scale consonance. Teverical palance (fa masve wat i interuptd by a sollry and rmnature cage of lari, at once ging scala and revealing mater and mater Sima, the spatial experience of paral, oF perspective warp, while moving trough overap ing epaces deine by sis and eaves opens {he phenomena spatial lds The experience of space llom a post of view hat sin perspectve presonis a couping of he external space ofthe horizon and the optic point trom the body. Eye sockets become a kind of arhiectural postion ‘younded in a phenomena of spatial experience ‘fat must be reconciled wth the concept arc ts sence of experiential satay An infiet numberof perspectives projected ‘rom anininte number o vewpoinis ealaesak8 tomako up the spatial ls a he phenomena ofa ‘work of arntectire ‘Spice remain in elon wit ght Lights shadow and shade ts aorent souoes, ts op cy, ranepatency, ansucency, and conditions ot rellacton and relacton wlorwine wo detine of redefine space. ight subjects space to uncertain 'y.forming kindof ena bedge though folds cof experience. What posto ylow ight does toa simple bare volume or whal a parabolic of sha ‘ow does fo abone white wal presents us wit a peyebo.ogea ané wansoondant ream of 6 prenomenaot architecture ifwe conscerhearder te ea) oe re oer ‘perception andthe phenomena the expenence) 12 beth mer petcepton, then naphysicalconsiuc ‘ion. outer pereeption andor pereapton are iter twined, From t's postion experi phenomena se the male lor @ ke of reasoning that jos concept and sensation, The obyctve fad with thosubjectve. Outer perception (te inlet) and Innor perpen ol he senses) are syesi20dn snorderng of

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