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Founding member of Anamorphosis Architects, Nikos Georgiadis, guest edited the March issue 1998 of the Architectural Design magazine, called Tracing Architecture.
by Nikos Georgiadis, AD March 98, p.18  |
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'I am not the man you think I am' is a spatial composition aiming to introduce Richard Sennett's concepts of 'touch' and 'resistence' appearing in his text 'The Sense of Touch' in Architectural Design, 'Tracing Architecture' March 1998, pp.18-23. The composition elaborates these concepts on the side of the object formation and in the context of the raw advent of function as forming process, and as critique of the notion of fragmentation and deformation. Furthermore, the synthesis introduces the problematic of inverted narcissism (developed by Nikos Georgiadis) and through that, it aims to offer a critical response to S.Dali's 'The Metamorphosis of Narcissus" (1937)  The Metamorphosis of Narcissus (1937), S Dahli. It extends further the surrealist paradigm, beyond the mere employment of dream-work or the paranoiac visual matiere, and operationalise it in the dimension of function. Function should be understood as an effect of morphic unity and oneness, always disappointing the visual paradigm. Spatial figuration is used here to cross oppositions like those between background and foreground, elaborate and raw, and also rational differentiations in the use of material or scale. Beyond the Proustian paradigm, the spatial event is here to be challenged out of its solitude as mere 'unwelcomed memory'. Spatial synthesis, instead, welcomes and articulates, a plurality of discourses. 'Touch - resistence' is therefore understood precisely in the context of 'associative ease' and comfort which forms have in relating to one another in the course of sameness and placeness, and, simultaneously, in the context of our own 'symbolic difficulty' of understanding such a simple spatial operation.~ CLICK HERE to go to back the anamorphosis´ start page |