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Journal Article
Memories of the Ground
2024
Overview
The ground is the first architectural act. It is the most basic -- and important -- dimension of that rich and complex definition of the physical environment, and it offers human beings their most direct and constant contact with the world through its topography, matter and memory. The ground holds within it the potential for primaeval architectural work, that which is most primitive, atavistic and essential. In his book Poème de l'angle droit, Le Corbusier argues that the right angle between the vertical of human beings and the horizontal of the ground is the most elementary coordinate governing how we inhabit the world. The vertical state inherent to the human body and the horizontal state that aligns our eyes and the horizon complement each other and condition every human spatial experience. In this way, the ground can be understood as a basic foundational plane, a topography of contact that links our body with the physical environment and places it in a material and poetic continuity with the world.
Publisher
Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Navarra,Universidad de Navarra
