Architecture and Anarchitecture: The Antinomy of Building

10.29431/AP.201012.0003

Karsten Harries

Anarchitecure ； antinomy ； utopia ； Robin Evans ； Gordon Matta-Clark ； Lebbeus Woods

Aesthetic Pathways

1卷1期（2010 / 12 / 01）

58 - 78

英文

The title needs some explanation. Anarchitecture has come in for quite a bit of attention in recent years, but what I am interested in here is not just a relatively recent chapter in the history of architecture, but the way that suspicion of architecture has shadowed thought about architecture from the very beginning. The subtitle is more problematic. Talk of antinomies makes us think of Kant. But here I am interested in the way we human beings, as the animals that possess spirit, are essentially amphibians, torn between the demands of our finite body, which inevitably places us and seeks shelter from a threatening outside, and the call of the infinite spirit, which is also the call of freedom which beckons us outside. Human dwelling is torn between Heimweh and Fernweh. And so we dream of utopias that would resolve my antinomy. It is a seductive and dangerous dream.