Saturday, August 10, 2013

Architecture and Self-Overcoming

On a church, a spire typically functions as pointing towards 'Heaven'.  However, not every building with a spire is a church.  So, in those cases, a spire can be interpreted as simply pointing beyond itself.  Thus, it is an architectural feature that can symbolize the Will to Power qua Self-Overcoming.  But, Architecture expresses Self-Overcoming in a more general way.  For, every new action constitutes a creative advance on given circumstances, including one's entire past.  So, with one's past conceived as the 'ground' of novel experience, the architectural building-ground relation represents a creative advance on that past, i. e. Self-Overcoming.

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