TRANSFORMAREA SPAȚIULUI ARHITECTURAL – ÎNTRE PROVOCARE ȘI LIMITĂ
THE TRANSFORMATION OF ARCHITECTURAL SPACE – BETWEEN CHALLENGE AND LIMIT

Summary/Abstract: A superficial perspective on architecture may induce the impression that it consists in the analysis of a long series of “containers”, conceived to shelter activities, technically named “programmes”. This inaccurate interpretation is distanced from the inner sense of “frozen music”, as defined by Goethe. Seen as an engine of civilizations across history, architecture acts as a phenomenon, answering to a dynamics defined both on a social scale and on a family or individual scale. We use today pedantic terms, such as “conversion”, “resilience” or the English term “adaptive re-use”, with the impression that these are conquests of our present thinking. But this process was followed as well when Roman amphitheaters were transformed into living areas or when Greek and Roman temples sheltered Christian basilicas since every epoch had its own conception on the pragmatism of reusing a pre-existing built fund.

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