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This paper will suggest a paradigm shift in architecture, which is given title Concretism. To support this argument the paper applies the phenomenological realism of Roman Ingarden. His ontology of art offers a solid system to identify the points of changing ideals in architecture. When applied to architecture, Ingarden’s phenomenological realism assumes a real, physical object as a partly independent object (an architectural work of art), and a cultural, intentional object (an aesthetic object). In his account concretization means an individual aspect or attitude in relation to the concrete, material object. Paradoxically, Ingarden’s system of architecture uses the concept ‘concrete’ only in the connection with the individual perceptions of the physical object, rather than using the word ‘concrete’ referring to the concrete, physical object (as a concrete realisation of an architectural idea). His view on the system of architecture, as a system of intentionality, is more complex, and instead of using only the concept ‘concretization’, he uses idealisation, actualisation, realisation and concretization(s). One must note that not all buildings in Ingarden’s system reach a point of highly ordered intentionality of an aesthetic object (concretization). This level requires persuasion, clarification, semiotic interpretations and conscious rhetoric. This paper will discuss the differences of socio—ethical concretists and immaterial concretists in the light of Ingarden’s system of architecture as a work of art. The difference with the previous paradigm is implied in the presence of a new hyper-value based on global interconnectedness. Ingarden, Roman. Ontology of the Work of Art. Ohio University Press, 1989.
Author(s): Blom K
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: IsPa/Tectonic Cultures Research Group
Year: 2010
Pages: -
Print publication date: 25/05/2010
Publisher: International Society for the Philosophy of Architecture
URL: http://isparchitecture.wordpress.com/2010/05/25/concretism/
