La dimensión espiritual de la materia arquitectónica. Reflexiones fenomenológicas sobre el brutalismo

A mere material understanding and experience of architecture miss its fundamental relation to human spirituality, something that gives buildings a property that most artifacts lack: transcendence. But, how can the most ethereal, evanescent, and ‘purest’ dimension of our humanity be at all connected to, even dependent on our most heavy, permanent, and measurable expression? However, this matter-spirit dichotomy is based on arguments advanced by ‘classical’ Western philosophy and the Abrahamic religions. From alternative philosophies and theologies, spirituality and embodiment are not understood as different elements but as one indivisible whole, something that today’s findings in neuroscience, psychology, and medicine tend to support. In this paper, we explore the relationship between architectural materiality and spirituality using this alternative viewpoint and refer to Brutalism, undoubtedly the most tectonic of the architectural languages of Modernity, to illuminate the close bond between spirituality and materiality.

• Autores: Bermúdez, Julio; Navarrete, Sandra
• Tipo de recurso: Article of journal
• Fecha de publicación: 2019
• Institución: Corporación Universidad de la Costa
• Repositorio: REDICUC - Repositorio CUC
• Idioma: spa
• OAI Identifier: oai:repositorio.cuc.edu.co:11323/5839
• Acceso en línea: https://hdl.handle.net/11323/5839; https://doi.org/10.17981/mod.arq.cuc.23.1.2019.05; https://repositorio.cuc.edu.co/
• Palabra clave: Arquitectura; Brutalismo; Crítica; Cuerpo; Fenomenología; Trascendencia; Architecture; Body; Brutalism; Criticism; Phenomenology; Transcendence
• Rights: openAccess
• License: CC0 1.0 Universal