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Éter: de la Res Extensa a la Inteligencia Ambiental

2015; redfundamentos SL; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.24192/2386-7027(2015)(v3)(11)

2386-7027

Juan Elvira,

Medieval Architecture and Archaeology

A reading of the architectural environment in atmospheric terms is proposed in this essay. It will approach space as a matter that inadvertently penetrates the objects and assemblages present in our daily lives, as important for the qualification of our environment as traditional, solid and visible architecture. We live immersed in an aerial environment saturated by substances and forces that form a vast ocean of chemicals, energy and information. Such medium is certainly not just ‘air’, at least not in a traditional sense. It is animated air. Therefore the concept of ether will be used in order to analyze this complex, active and largely artificial medium. It will be examined from different points of view, as a historic scientific model and a cultural construction whose meaning has been transferred to numerous areas of material production, also enhancing our perceptive imagination. Ether can shed some light in describing those technical and cultural processes that will probably play a key role in the forthcoming architectural practice.