The Education of the Innocent Eye
1998; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 51; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/10464883.1998.10734780
ISSN1531-314X
Autores Tópico(s)Art, Politics, and Modernism
ResumoThe teaching of space in architectural education has generally been explained to students as an eternal truth outside of context or history. Nevertheless, a genealogy exists for the teaching of space. A visual language of spatial relations was first promoted by nineteenth-century child educators as an alternative to overly conventionalized methods of reading and writing. Bauhaus masters Laszlo Moholy-Nagy and Josef Albers developed a coherent method of teaching space in art by linking the child educators' visual language to John Ruskin's ideal of the innocent eye. As later translated into architectural terms by Colin Rowe, Robert Slutzky, and others, the idea of a language of space served to bolster the discipline when architecture seemed to lose its purpose in the sixties. The conclusion of this article examines the language of space and the innocent eye as methods of teaching today.
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