Архитектурата като илюзия: от Ренесанс до параметрицизъм. Форма на организирана магия
Architecture as Illusion: From Renaissance to Parametricism

Summary/Abstract: Architecture creates artificial worlds. Illusion underlies the generative nature of architectural action. Understanding style as a permanent form and a visual sign of cultural oneness reflecting or projecting the inner form of collective thinking and feeling, suggests that stylistic differences are just degrees of development, a change in the ways in which illusions are created, tinted by the specifics of social relations. These are evidenced by the manifestations of architectural phenomena both of the days of Italian Renaissance and of the immediate contemporaneity with the new architectural style Parametricism introduced by Patrik Schumacher. The article draws an analogy, based on the strategies of creating spatial illusions, of their essence, the grounds for their creation and the logic of their persistent presence in architectural theory. Visual illusions and ambiguity are regarded as principles bound by the idea of beauty. Both six centuries ago and now, architecture would readily create notions and illusions that would have an emotional effect and convey subconsciously mass messages provoking positive reflections among their numerous audiences.

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