Arhitektura: konstruiranje konkretnih utopij

The central thesis of this article maintains that architecture is a utopian practice by virtue of its inner structure and by the way it functions. The article develops this thesis on the basis of the concept of tectonic joints. As an instance of a joint, we take the joint at its largest scale, the connection between a built structure and its context. If the connection/joint between them is successfully articulated, we see both elements in a new and different way. We see them as a place, which is what we call a joint of the largest scale. In this article, we demonstrate that a place is that which is, in the process of tectonic construction, created anew: a place can neither be reduced to an element of the given situation, nor can it be deduced from the situation. A place is a trans-temporal and trans-situational creation of architecture. Because of its trans-temporal and trans-situational character, a place, a topos, is in fact a non-place, an a-topos. This a-topical moment is that which architecture creates and introduces into the world in the form of its successful material products. In so doing, it opens up the possibility of thinking and acting, different from the thinking and acting that is dictated by the given world. It opens up a possibility of thinking and acting that has as its sole point of support and orientation this explicit moment of the a-topical.Osrednja teza članka je, da je arhitektura utopična praksa po svoji notranji strukturi in po svojem načinu delovanja. To tezo razvija in utemeljuje članek na podlagi koncepta tektonske vezi. Kot primer vezi jemljemo vez v največjem merilu, povezavo neke grajene strukture in njenega konteksta. Če je vez med njima uspešna, potem vidimo oba elementa na nov in drugačen način. Vidimo ju kot kraj. Vez v največjem merilu imenujemo kraj. V članku dokazujemo, da je kraj tisto, kar je v procesu tektonskega konstruiranja ustvarjeno na novo: kraja ni mogoče ne zvesti na element dane situacije niti ga ni mogoče iz nje izpeljati. Kraj je transtemporalna in transsituacijska kreacija arhitekture. Zaradi svojega transtemporalnega in transsituacijskega značaja je kraj, topos, v resnici ne-kraj, a-topos. Ta a-topični moment je tisto, kar arhitektura ustvarja in vpeljuje v svet v obliki svojih uspešnih materialnih produktov. S tem odpira v svetu možnost za mišljenje in delovanje, ki je drugačno od mišljenja in delovanja, ki ga narekuje dani svet. Odpira možnost za mišljenje in delovanje, katerega edina oporna in orientacijska točka je moment a-topičnega