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A Study on Autonomous Architecture Through Comparing Peter Eisenman and Valerio Olgiati

피터 아이젠만과 발레리오 올지아티의 비교를 통한 자율적 건축에 관한 연구

  • Ma, Seung-Bum (Dept. of Interior Architecture, School of Architecture, Hongik University)
  • Received : 2021.12.27
  • Accepted : 2022.02.21
  • Published : 2022.03.30
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Abstract

Autonomous architecture focuses on the system of formal elements that are essential in architecture. Both Peter Eisenman and Valerio Olgiati treat the physical and functional elements in architecture such as columns, slabs, walls as the basic materials in architectural design; the architectural idea, or internal logic of design, governs the shape and the arrangement of elements. Both architects refuse to adopt extra-architectural discourses as it relates to social, economic, and political approaches. Even if arguments in philosophy and art are accommodated, they are retranslated into architectural rhetoric where formal and spatial analysis override historical or theoretical ideas. Here are the differences between the two architects: Peter Eisenman pursues the completeness of the formalistic system of the project itself whereas the existential sense-making experience of the beholder that provokes the imagination and metaphysical thinking is of paramount importance to Valerio Olgiati. Peter Eisenman produces architectural meaning by adding or duplicating unfunctional, but still fundamental elements; and the axonometric format that shows the process of transformation of architectural elements is preferred. However, Valerio Olgiati designs buildings by dividing one entity with one idea, and the design process is concealed to intrigue the beholders. Plans, sections, and elevations stimulate the intellectual imagination, and realistic renderings with a poetic atmosphere are favored. Lastly, Peter Eisenman is relatively indifferent to physical buildings since his true architecture is already completed in the drawings. But Valerio Olgiati concentrates on the physicality and construction since it determines the success of the project. Their approaches of reserving the architectural territory by concentrating on the essential aspects of architecture makes one question the way of doing architecture in practice and within academia in today's ever-changing world.

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Acknowledgement

이 논문은 2021학년도 홍익대학교 학술연구진흥비에 의하여 연구된 것임.

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