Summary
Snežana Vesnić: Architectural concepts in figures and sequences
The book consists of a series of short theoretical sequences. Each of these fragments deals with a specific question posed by architectural reality. The sequential structure of the book encourages its non-linear reading, where each of these theoretical fragments deliberately does not follow the logic of the "beginning" and "end" of the narrative structure. Along with the concept of sequence, an equally important concept through which the author builds the method of structuring the book is the figure. If the sequence is part of the narrative sequence, the figure is part of the spatial continuum. It is also fragmentary, sketchy, but in a very different way. The figure cannot be decomposed or exhausted in language because it belongs to the category of the sensuous, providing an experience of immediacy that cannot be reconstructed by the sequential logic of description or narration. If the sequence is insufficiently conceptual because it remains objectively unfinished, the figure is non-conceptual because its objectivity does not rest on the principles of logic. This double lack of conceptual – in figure and sequence – is adopted as the basic motif of the book. From this position, fragmentary texts on individual topics do not seek to define concepts, but to find the critical point of their creation in sketches, refraining from literary presentation.
Biblos Newsletter
New titles, special copies and quiet recommendations from the antiquarian bookshop.