Submitted by Myriam Mahiques
LABYRINTHS CONCEPTS
Architecture News - Nov 12, 2009 - 21:26 8801 views
Labyrinths have been built in several cultures in all continents, archaeologists have traced them back some 4000 years ago; there is also speculation that this symbol dates back to the Paleolithic period (20000 BC) in prehistoric rock art. It is sustained in a universal pattern of disorientation, with a psycho-somatic quality that triggers our experience. Its meaning is expressed in both conscious (architecture) and unconscious levels (memory and experience). Bernard Tschumi appropriates the figure of labyrinth to explain that it concentrates on the senses, on the experience of space, as well as the relationship between space and practice; the morphological opposite is the pyramid, with its shape variations implies the dematerialization of architecture.
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