LORENS HOLM (University of Dundee)
The many and varied threads which draw person and place together.
Space is inseparable from subjectivity.
We are space and space is us.
Beckett. Not I. The modern subject.
A surface (single-sided) with a mouth or an ear.
The symbolic form of the subject.
A person is more than a subject – we hope.
A speaking subject.
Gideon. Rossi. Geddes.
Dynamism and vibration between subject and space.
The modern space conception is characterised by the dynamic interaction between in and out.
The past is understood as a projection of the modern.
Archaic Greece doesn’t recognize distinction between voice from within and voice from without.
The orientation of the spatial.
Psychoanalysis. The Speaking Subject.
Lacan. We a fundamental (rather than accidental) speakers.
Ego vs unconscious.
Image vs internal stream of signifiers.
Dynamism.
We’re in the field of signifiers.
The field of signifiers is within you and without you.
Rossi as a psychoanalysis of the city.
A vision of continuity for orientation.
The architecture of the city is structured as a language.
The architecture of the city is the unconscious.
The creation of the collective, continuously under construction.
Rossi’s city is without beginning or end.
Regular nostalgia.
The city as image vs the city as progress
Conscious thought vs flow of signifiers
The dynamic interaction between the two.
Analogical city = city of substitutions.
The city represents the collective memory of the inhabitants.
Collective memory feeds through the field of the other.
School; cemetery; theatre.
Life; death; imagination.
Forgotten architecture.
Vitruvius. Primitive Hut.
The birth of architecture in speech and fire.
Individuals united by the communal act of building.
Intending to correlate form of built environment with the form of thought.
How social relations relate to architectural formations.
Social consciousness evolves with city developments.
The ghost as the material form of the mind.
Writing the field of the other.
Ghost writing.
Always vanishing.
Material and ephemeral.