Uma sinopse estrutural na era da poética tectónica

Abstract

This paper aims to explore the evolution of the concept of structure within the Poetic Tectonic age. The theoretical framework of structure possesses a symbolic value related to theory and practice which explains architectural philosophy at a certain time. A structural overview of structure as a concept, allows an understanding of what is structuring in architecture and how it has changed over time. It is proposed a holistic analysis of structure in order to achieve a multidisciplinary approach facing new architectonic perspectives for post crisis (2008) situation. Poetic Tectonics presents itself as a new epistemological framework that links to the notion of structure, concepts such as “nature” and “truth”, allowing new scientific conceptions of tectonic analyses in architecture. Architecture is understood in this profound structure has an expression of human ideas in a unique artistic manner. What arises as a pattern in architectural history is the fact that there is no architecture without structure. The applied methodology is based on Complexity Theory as a holistic perspective of architectural knowledge and on Kuhn´s (1962) structure of scientific revolutions in order to analyze paradigms and paradigmatic changes. A chronological approach of structure, as an invariant, is developed through the analyses and overlap of architectural essays and slogans that express theoretical and phenomenological syntheses of complex thinking. By understanding the genesis of architectural slogans and its evolution it is aimed to achieve a range of possibilities linked to actuality. The authors analyzed, in a chronological sequence are: Viollet-le-Duc; John Ruskin; Frank Lloyd Wright; Le Corbusier; Mies van der Rohe; Pier Luigi Nervi; Buckminster Fuller; Louis Kahn; Oscar Niemeyer; Robert Venturi; Christopher Alexander; Peter Einsenman; Bernard Tschumi and Wolf Prix. The process that leads to a new architectonic view is discussed around the proposed slogan - “more with less”. Structure as Architecture is one of the most profound traditions of architecture with its origins on the Vitruvian treaty. It has crossed all the Tectonic ages linked to economy within construction. Economy is also a structural limit. What if architecture nowadays could absorb the best tectonic ideas of the Poetic age in order to achieve more with less by learning from the past towards the future?