Watermarks of architecture

IF 0.3 4区艺术学 0 ARCHITECTURE

METU Journal of the Faculty of Architecture Pub Date : 2022-05-19 DOI:10.1080/13602365.2022.2122068

A. Sioli

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Abstract

Engaging Joseph Brodsky’s compelling novella Watermark (1992) — a wintertime account of Venice — this paper unpacks embodied experiences in a place of paramount cultural and historical heritage. The literary language captures the city’s emotional character — portraying how it affects our consciousness and subsequent behaviours — by describing affective atmospheres that emerge on the threshold of architecture and its embodied perception. The seasonal narration, moreover, allows for a unique glimpse into the city’s architectural heritage, which is most commonly appreciated by visitors and tourists during spring or summer. With architectural discourse nowadays embracing the importance of atmospheres and narratives for the understanding of place and culture, Watermark tangibly advocates for the city’s affective emotional power as a unique heritage to preserve. By doing so, it guides architects towards a design sensitivity open to the ephemerality of spatial moods. Distinct moments of encounter between the city’s urban design and water, Venice’s architecture and its humidity, as well as the place’s imposing materiality in the cold, provide an understanding of how a place of memory like Venice is produced and experienced.

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建筑水印

本文采用约瑟夫·布罗茨基引人入胜的中篇小说《水印》(1992)，讲述了威尼斯冬天的故事，揭示了这个地方最重要的文化和历史遗产的具体经历。文学语言捕捉了城市的情感特征——描绘了它如何影响我们的意识和随后的行为——通过描述建筑门槛上出现的情感氛围及其体现的感知。此外，季节性的叙述可以让人们对这座城市的建筑遗产有一个独特的了解，这是游客和游客在春季或夏季最常欣赏的。随着当今建筑话语对环境的重要性和对地方和文化的理解，水印项目切实倡导将城市的情感力量作为一种独特的遗产来保护。通过这样做，它引导建筑师走向对空间情绪的短暂性开放的设计敏感性。威尼斯的城市设计和水、威尼斯的建筑和它的湿度，以及这个地方在寒冷中令人印象深刻的物质之间相遇的独特时刻，提供了对威尼斯这样一个记忆之地是如何产生和体验的理解。

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