The Structure That Structures Us

IF 1.7 Q3 URBAN STUDIES Urban Planning Pub Date : 2023-05-24 DOI:10.17645/up.v8i3.6889
J. Dawson
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Christopher Alexander explored the world of built structures. He longed for buildings and spaces that touched and triggered our own psychological and spiritual structure. From his examples of spaces we experience as alive he distilled his Fifteen Properties: aspects and qualities in buildings that quicken us. As architects, we want to learn how we can create structures that embody the Fifteen Properties. Can we do so through consciously attempting to design them? In my experience of designing, we need more than a conscious attempt. We need an awareness of the goal of our designing. And Alexander himself gives us a glimpse of that goal in The Linz Café: Our goal is nothing short of designing as an offering to God. What might an offering to God mean? What might it mean as an attitude free from ideology or embalmed belief? The discoveries C. G. Jung made can help us get in touch with such a goal. Our goal is our own divine centre. Our challenge as architects is to open ourselves to the images and structures that appear on our paper or screens as we design. What is their source? Can we see ourselves in them? Can we meet our divine centre in them?
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构造我们的结构
克里斯托弗·亚历山大探索了建筑的世界。他渴望建筑和空间能够触动和触发我们自己的心理和精神结构。从他的例子中,我们体验到的空间是活生生的,他提炼了他的“十五属性”:建筑的方面和品质,使我们快速。作为建筑师,我们想学习如何创造能体现“十五属性”的结构。我们能通过有意识地尝试设计它们来做到这一点吗?根据我的设计经验,我们需要的不仅仅是有意识的尝试。我们需要意识到我们设计的目标。亚历山大自己也在《林茨咖啡馆》中让我们瞥见了这个目标:我们的目标就是把设计作为献给上帝的祭品。献给上帝的祭品是什么意思?这是一种摆脱意识形态或陈旧信仰的态度,意味着什么?荣格的发现可以帮助我们接近这样一个目标。我们的目标是我们自己的神圣中心。作为建筑师,我们面临的挑战是在设计时向出现在纸上或屏幕上的图像和结构敞开心扉。它们的来源是什么?我们能从他们身上看到自己吗?我们能在其中遇见我们神圣的中心吗?
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Urban Planning
Urban Planning URBAN STUDIES-
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12 weeks
期刊介绍: Urban Planning is a new international peer-reviewed open access journal of urban studies aimed at advancing understandings and ideas of humankind’s habitats – villages, towns, cities, megacities – in order to promote progress and quality of life. The journal brings urban science and urban planning together with other cross-disciplinary fields such as sociology, ecology, psychology, technology, politics, philosophy, geography, environmental science, economics, maths and computer science, to understand processes influencing urban forms and structures, their relations with environment and life quality, with the final aim to identify patterns towards progress and quality of life.
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