Wednesday, August 7, 2013

Architecture, Dionysian, Apollinian

It seems not unreasonable to speculate that Architecture is primarily the expression of a fundamentally biological instinct--the need for shelter.  Accordingly, the 'space' that it creates is, more precisely, an enclosure, concomitant with the construction of which is the production of an external facade of the structure.  Thus, Architecture is the basis of one of the significant contrasts of Modern Philosophy--In-Itself/Appearance.  Of course, Nietzsche is among those influenced by that contrast--it informs, via Schopenhauer, his Dionysian/Apollinian relation.  Thus, it is not merely that Architecture is independent of both the Dionysian and the Apollinian principles, as he suggests in #11 of the 'Expeditions' section of Twilight of the Idols, it is arguably their origin.

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