Sinopse:

Half a century ago, Bernard Rudofsky's Architecture without architects deeply shook the convictions of the modern movement in architecture.

Nowadays, nobody would dare propose, like Le Corbusier did in his Plan Voisin in 1925, to scrap the old core of Paris and replace it with a grid of geometrical skyscrapers; yet, this is more or less what has been done recently in Beijing, and what Louis H. Sullivan called the international style has covered the world with forms indifferent to their places. Beyond architecture, such a phenomenon reveals an ontological structure, proper to modernity : the Modern Ontological Topos, the descents of which can be traced back to Parmenides, Plato and Aristotle, but which was definitely established only in the XVIIth century with Descartes' dualism.  This structure will be contrasted with what reveals the periodical reconstruction of the temple of Ise in its archaic form. Is form an object in space, or a process in time? Posing such an alternative is precisely an expression of the modern ontological topos. We have now to overcome modernity, and conceive of reality anew.

Augustin Berque, geógrafo e orienalista, Doutor em geografia (tese :

Hiérarchies commerciales du département des Landes, inédita), doutor "ès Lettres" (1977, Paris IV; tese: Les Grandes terres de Hokkaidô, étude de géographie culturelle, microfilme, Publications orientalistes de France), é, desde 1979, directeur d'études à l'École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), onde dirigiu o Centre de recherches sur le Japon contemporain de 1981 à 1999; director da Maison franco-japonaise de Tokyo, 1984-1988; professor na Universidade do Miyagi

(Japão),1999-2001 e no Centre de recherches internationales sur la culture japonaise (Nichibunken, Kyôto), 2005-2006.

Possui vasta obra especializada, com obras de referência sobre geografia cultural e teoria da paisagem, entre as quais: Le Sauvage et l’Artifice. Les Japonais devant la nature (1986); Médiance, de milieux en paysages, (1990, 2000); Les Raisons du paysage, de la Chine antique aux environnements de synthèse (1995); Être humains sur la Terre, principes d'éthique de l'écoumène (1996); Écoumène, introduction à

l'étude des milieux humains (2000);  La Pensée paysagère (2008),

Histoire de l'habitat idéal - De l'Orient vers l'Occident (2010).

Organização:

Mestrado Integrado em Arquitectura – Seminário I –Docente: Jorge Croce Rivera Departamentos de Filosofia e de  Arquitectura

Apoios:

Centro de Estudos de História e Filosofia da Ciência Curso de Doutoramento em Arquitectura

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