Abstract

SILVA, Teresa Madeira da. The concept of architectural place: contributions from architecture and hermeneutic philosophy. CIDADES [online]. 2023, n.46, pp.114-130.  Epub June 30, 2023. ISSN 2182-3030.  https://doi.org/10.15847/cct.27344.

Given the plurality of disciplinary perspectives to which places and cities are subject, we intend to discuss the concept of architectural place from two disciplinary areas: architecture and philosophy. As it turns out that the way in which architecture is normally reflected in the disciplinary field of architecture is dominated by the model of the natural sciences (that is, considering places as objects in which only the objective form of the building that gave rise to it is decisive, not including the aspects related to the meanings that each person attributes to it ), the propose of this reflection is to introduce another approach in the debate. Since hermeneutics calls for interpretation and incorporates in the interpretation the role played by the different interpreters, we consider it fundamental to associate to the reading and characterization of the place concepts developed by this discipline such as the concepts of time, space, and narrative evoked by Gadamer and Ricouer. Thus, in addition to the technical and objective component, we introduce, in reading the place, the significant component. We conclude that places and cities, in addition to having a set of attributes of order, also have a set of non-objectifiable characteristics, but that make them unique and unrepeatable entities, and their appropriation is an unlimited field of possibilities.

Keywords : place; cities; architecture; hermeneutic philosophy; interpretation.

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