0:12 my lecture tonight is is called Warped
0:16 space and as I drove down from New York
0:21 on trends I tried to refigure my space
0:22 so that I could talk about warp space
0:26 I've been for an entire weekend between
0:30 different aspects of my my English
0:33 family you remember going home to your
0:37 parents at the weekend so at that point
0:40 warp space became very real and
0:44 alienation became even more real and
0:46 it's almost impossible for me to talk
0:48 about alienation of course in the AAA
0:51 where I feel so much at home
0:53 this talk is set in the context of a
0:55 book that I'm the process of completing
1:08 a kind of sequel or parallel work to the
1:14 architectural uncanny I I do promise by
1:15 the way after the architectural and
1:18 county and the anxiety of space too I
1:20 thought I should choose a happier title
1:22 for the book the book after this you
1:24 know it's just like Marquez my cousins
1:26 has to choose something sort of more
1:30 cheerful than than damage or ugliness
1:33 after after his next set of lectures so
1:35 something like the third book would be
1:37 the house beautiful how to be
1:39 comfortable at home and various other
1:41 things and I contracted with Ralph
1:46 Lauren and a number of other Harrods the
1:49 new Harrods interior decorating a book
1:52 department to to write that so but
1:54 that's after this so you'll have to deal
1:57 with a little nervousness still tonight
2:02 but believe me I'm getting tired where
2:04 the uncanny book investigated the
2:06 uncertain foundations of thinking about
2:10 da Mosta city and home Lena's in an era
2:13 of homelessness as events in certain
2:14 problematic works of the contemporary
2:17 avant-garde this new book is more
2:19 concerned with a conceptualization of
2:23 public space in the modern period I give
2:26 you a photograph by Tom Jacoby entitled
2:30 France 1984 this new book is more
2:32 concerned with the conceptualization of
2:34 public space in the modern period from
2:36 the Enlightenment to the present and
2:38 especially with its representation
2:41 painterly photographic filmic digital
2:44 and theorization as reflecting the
2:46 profound sense of anxiety and
2:48 psychological alienation attendant on
2:51 the emergence of mass social space I
2:55 begin by examining the Enlightenment
2:57 subsection with transparency and its
3:00 desire to rid the existing city of any
3:03 obscure or dark insalubrious
3:08 or dangerous spaces I end with an
3:11 analysis of the completed Rompuy J of
3:16 Meatballs presidency in Paris as a narrative
3:16 narrative
3:19 despite the different subject matters
3:21 various chapters the book might be said
3:24 to trace the progress of transparency in
3:26 the face of the constant resistance
3:29 posed to Urbanus and their imaginaries
3:32 by everyday life and by the newly
3:36 discovered diseases of space agro phobia
3:39 and claustrophobia last year here I
3:42 spoke of the phobic reactions to fit is
3:45 embedded in the presets of infinite
3:47 space shared by Howard Roark and look
3:50 Avicii eight alike in the 1930s Gary
3:52 Cooper tonight I want to look more
3:55 closely at the theorization of spatial
3:57 form itself in the first third of the
4:00 century theorization that took place not
4:01 only in the consulting rooms of
4:04 psychiatrists but also in the work of
4:06 art historians and critics and that was
4:07 determined to see the formal
4:10 dislocations of futurism constructivism
4:13 cubism and Expressionism as the marks of
4:17 a period of deep spatial unease a period
4:18 where the desperate search for place
4:21 seems destined to be undermined by the
4:23 universalizing space of modern
4:30 technology life and movement in his
4:33 brief review of the photographic album
4:36 entitled x marks the spot
4:38 published in Chicago by the spot
4:42 publishing company in 1930 and published
4:46 in document in 1930 respect I remarked
4:49 on the custom of publishing photographs
4:55 of criminal cadavers which seems equally
4:58 he said to play well in Europe and
5:00 certainly represents moral
5:02 transformation the considerable moral
5:04 transformation touching the attitudes of
5:08 the public with regard to violent death
5:11 to illustrate the point but I selected a
5:13 photograph from this first photographic
5:16 history of Chicago gangland slayings as
5:19 it was touted on the jacket depicting
5:21 the corpse of an assassinated gangster
5:24 found in the ice of Lake Michigan the
5:27 figure face up as if frozen while
5:30 floating a literal monument to its own death
5:31 death
5:34 in one sense of course this image has no
5:36 relation to the concept of x marks the spot
5:37 spot
5:39 announced in the title of the album and
5:41 referring to the custom of marking the
5:42 position of the victim after removal of
5:45 the body there was in this case no mark
5:46 to be left on the ice
5:49 following the excavation of the frozen
5:51 corpse and its place of discovery with
5:53 destined to be effaced forever with the
5:56 subsequent four for instance however the
5:59 corpse acted as it as its own mark one
6:01 only to be rendered permanent in the
6:05 police photo and this photograph assures
6:06 the Nuba man has recently pointed out
6:11 was itself an enigmatic record at first
6:16 one sees not very much an image pure of
6:20 a pure and simple place chaotic a mess
6:25 of both of white and black and then one
6:30 recognizes very gradually the man dead
6:34 and probably assassinated frozen in the
6:39 ice of the lake of michigan transformed
6:41 into an anamorphic vision by virtue of
6:43 the flattening surface of the ice and
6:45 the angle of the photo the dead gangster
6:49 has been doubly recomposed first as the
6:51 martyr of the sight of his own death and
6:54 secondly as a visually encoded
6:57 hieroglyphic image of that mark further
6:59 whatever place was marked by position of
7:01 the body it was not the site of the
7:02 assassination itself but rather of the
7:05 place where the gangster had ended up
7:07 propelled by the currents of the lake
7:10 and frozen by chance on rising to the
7:12 surface a mark therefore the ever exact
7:15 ever transitory place of death in modern
7:18 urban life but at the same time the
7:20 consistent popular fascination with a
7:24 nature and signs of that place this
7:26 signal of baptized interest in the
7:28 position and role of X in marking the
7:32 spot of death in the city anticipated by
7:33 eight years his more developed
7:36 reflection on leeches proclamation of
7:39 the death of God an essay in which the
7:41 role of the mark is now played by a
7:44 monument the obelisk of Luxor
7:46 rekted in the Place de la Concorde in
7:51 1836 and the spot marked by the obelisk
7:53 of course is that at the erection of the
7:56 guillotine for the execution of louis
8:01 xvi in this process of transformation in
8:03 which a police inquiry into a murdered
8:05 gangster is enlarged to encompass the
8:08 death of God the mystery who is the
8:11 victim and who the murderer is similarly
8:14 deepened both by the historical age and
8:17 mysterious origins of X the obelisk in
8:20 Egypt marking the spot and by its
8:22 subsequent deracinated and transposition
8:26 to modern Paris the circumstances of its
8:29 reutilization that is the reutilization
8:31 of the obelisk and the subsequent
8:32 history of its interpretation and
8:37 reception in the plus place or plaster
8:39 la concorde when during to the
8:41 monumental history of this plus itself
8:44 established for george Bataille the
8:47 appropriate news on sin in which the
8:49 stage reaches fool running into the
8:52 public square with Lantern lit in broad daylight
8:52 daylight
8:56 crying I'm looking for God the obelisk
8:59 held a special place in Betazed symbolic
9:02 typography for by virtue of its origin
9:04 in history and its monumental
9:11 role in space it once potentially
9:13 reconciled time in space
9:16 if facing the one in favor of the ladder
9:18 at the same time as opening the way
9:20 through a process of each symbol at D
9:23 symbolization and by it too insistent
9:25 presence to a negation of all historical
9:30 meaning X then marks the spot not only
9:31 of the proclamation of the death of God
9:35 and of the actual murder of the king in
9:37 this case but also of the threshold of
9:39 all ensuing consequences and
9:42 potentialities or rather the place from
9:44 which it would be possible to imagine
9:47 any such future the conjuncture of the
9:49 Place de la Concorde and the obelisk was
9:52 thus an entirely appropriate plus or
9:55 place for any Gian inquiry the place
9:57 itself had indeed been the object of
9:58 almost as
10:01 many redefinitions and imposed identify
10:04 identities as the obelisk as a place
10:07 that is its place with singularly
10:08 unstable in both political and
10:12 architectural terms begun in the mid
10:13 18th century on the site of a vast
10:15 waterlogged field on the edge of the
10:17 city the plaster was originally
10:20 dedicated to Louis fifteen a maned as
10:23 such selected as a result of a
10:26 competition in 1748 to determine the
10:28 appropriate site on which to erect the
10:30 statue of the king in celebration of his
10:33 miraculous recovery from a severe
10:35 illness it had finally be conceived by
10:38 Jacques Gabrielle in the form of a large
10:40 octagon defined that is corners by
10:43 pavilions and with Bouchard all's
10:45 equestrian statue of the king at its
10:50 center in 1792 revolution the statue was
10:52 topple replaced by the figure of Liberty
10:56 and the class renamed plaster la
10:59 revolucion at the end of that year the
11:01 guillotine was installed to the first
11:04 time appearing game in 1793 for the
11:07 execution of louis xvi and Marie
11:12 Antoinette the fantasy of a plus full of
11:19 beauties is there to remain until 1794
11:20 following the execution of Robespierre
11:26 in 1795 the plus was renamed plus the
11:31 Latin Quarter in 1814 plus three the
11:38 15th in 1826 plus louis xvi in 1828 plus
11:41 Louis the 15th again and finally in 1830
11:44 once more returns to the convulsions
11:48 name plus de la Concorde plans for its
11:49 architectural embellishments were
11:51 equally changeable throughout the period
11:56 in 1890 1794 Jacques Derrida vide the
11:58 artist has set up the horses of mockery
12:00 at the entrance of the shoals of easy
12:02 joining those that have been erected in
12:06 1719 in 1800 the Polian took down the
12:08 figure of Liberty with a plan of raising
12:10 a national column in its place
12:12 two years later changed his mind and
12:14 proposed substituting a statue of
12:17 Charlemagne with the face of Napoleon
12:21 this didn't fly either and in 1811
12:24 projects were developed for a fountain
12:26 louis xviii proposed a funeral monument
12:30 to larry xvi in 1826 Charles the tenth
12:32 laid the first stone for the base of the
12:34 statue of the executed monument monarch
12:38 Louie the 16th and in 1836 before a huge
12:40 crowd and in the presence of the king
12:42 Louis Philippe the engineer of the bath
12:46 re-raise the obelisk of lips or gifts of
12:48 Muhammad Ali of Egypt onto the base
12:51 prepared by the architect his architect
12:54 it off over the next four years the
12:56 plastiscines its present form with eight
12:59 allegorical statues each dedicated to a
13:01 major French city mounted on Gabriel's
13:03 pavilions together with some 20 columns
13:05 holding lamps and two fountains
13:07 emulating those of the square of
13:10 saltpeter in Rome an eclectic plus
13:14 indeed baptized observations on this
13:16 place while said in the context of his
13:19 reading of Nietzsche in the 1930s were
13:21 also informed by his inquiry into
13:23 architectural monument allottee and the
13:25 space of a public realm in modern
13:28 culture an investigation begun in the
13:32 articles architecture Espace a news day
13:36 in documenting continued as Daniel ei
13:38 has recently demonstrated throughout his
13:42 writings Herbert I began to explore that
13:45 profound destabilization of the realm of
13:48 the monumental operated by the force of
13:50 space itself and met precisely the
13:53 psychological power of space considered
13:57 as fluid boundary of facing always
14:01 displaced and always a displacing medium
14:03 characteristically his brief article on
14:06 his space or space published in the
14:08 first issue of document in 1930 was
14:12 illustrated by the tie by four
14:15 apparently unrelated but in fact
14:17 carefully selected photographs placed in
14:21 pairs on facing pages the first
14:24 depicted the demolished or collapsed wall
14:24 wall
14:27 prison revealing the bars of the cells
14:29 within the second immediately below
14:31 showed a monkey dressed up like a
14:38 the third across from the destroyed
14:40 prison was an image of a Nandi
14:42 initiation ceremony photographs in
14:46 Tanganyika in 1929 the fourth the scene
14:49 of a giant fish about to swallow a small
14:53 fish each of these images was provided
14:56 by a title drawn from the text of
15:04 in relationship to the to the prison the
15:06 day when the walls collapsed in front of
15:09 the bars of their cell and then in
15:11 relationship to the monkey that a monkey
15:13 dressed as a woman should be only one of
15:19 the divisions of space and then an
15:22 ignoble initiation rite practiced by
15:26 savages and finely spaced can become one
15:30 fish who eats another I'm only going to
15:32 deal tonight with the prison and the
15:35 fish the monkey and the initiation right
15:40 would require a whole inquiry into the
15:44 anxiety of space the space of the other
15:47 generated by the rediscoveries of
15:50 different kinds of initiation rites and
15:56 and ceremonies in in Africa in the 1930s
16:00 a clue as to bow ties meaning may be
16:02 gleaned from his first qualification of
16:05 the word of space for space as
16:10 questioned the covenants covenants or
16:12 suitability had always been in
16:14 architecture especially a loaded term
16:16 referring to the classical codes of
16:20 appropriateness of a genre or an order
16:23 to a particular program at its simplest
16:25 regulating the application of the orders
16:28 and constraining decoration to a rigid
16:31 and social hierarchy but evident even on
16:34 the nonces of which but ty speaks are
16:35 very different from those of the
16:38 classical Canon or rather even as they
16:40 rely on former canons are conceived in
16:43 order to establish entirely new mix onra
16:46 and canons not of social hierarchy but
16:49 if it's dissolution lot of social
16:51 propriety but it's withering away new
16:54 genre and canons that is of power and
16:57 eroticism represented in space precisely
17:00 through the abilities of space itself to
17:04 dissolve boundaries but I'd examples
17:06 reinforced by carefully chosen
17:09 photographs refer not to the power
17:12 invested in the controlled spaces of an
17:14 aristocratic tastes or burgeois function
17:17 nor for the ritual spaces of traditional
17:19 political erotic practice but to the
17:22 most fundamental eroticism of spatial
17:27 transmutation itself thus for the Thai
17:30 space can become one fish who eats
17:34 another traditionally conventional space
17:37 such as that of a prisoner for example
17:40 is indeed only perceptible in its full
17:42 force when caught in the act of passing
17:45 from one space to another as in the
17:49 moment of collapse a try didactic to the
17:52 last speculates that evidently no one
17:53 has thought of throwing the professor's
17:56 into prison to teach them what space is
17:58 for example the day when the walls
18:00 collapsed in front of the bars of their
18:04 cell unquote this imagined collapse of
18:06 the sardian universe which was after all
18:08 anticipated by the Maquis destroyed
18:11 himself once for the tie and opening
18:15 onto a world of unmitigated eroticism in
18:18 unimaginable freedom from traditional
18:21 criminals that this imaginary freedom
18:25 took place in bataille terms in space
18:27 pointed to the special place of the idea
18:32 and practice of space in modernism in
18:33 what follows I want to trace the
18:36 prehistory of both eyes work on space
18:39 the prehistory of inner of his anxiety
18:42 of place so to speak as a first step to
18:44 the reformulation of spatial thinking in
18:47 our present found us yet the condition
18:49 one in which the themes first propose
18:52 by Michi and later extended bye bye-bye
18:55 but I seem to find at least a distant
19:02 echo architects and their apologists
19:04 have throughout the 20th century tended
19:08 to celebrate space if in the 19th
19:09 century architecture would seem in terms
19:12 of style and structure related to
19:14 nationality society and culture in the
19:16 20th century the dominant theme has been
19:20 that of space space protagonists of
19:23 architecture noted Bruno xavie in 1948
19:27 summing up over 50 years of spatial
19:28 theory and practice but marked out
19:30 Architecture from the other arts as a
19:32 functional and experiential
19:35 accommodation of the moving body and the
19:38 perceiving subject in space embraced by
19:41 art historians and architects alike the
19:43 idea of space has held a double promise
19:45 of dissolving the rigid stylistic
19:47 characterizations of the 19th century in
19:49 two fundamental 3-dimensional
19:52 organizations and providing the
19:54 essential material so to speak for the
19:56 development of a truly modern
20:00 architecture space to paraphrase Viktor
20:03 Bergen paraphrasing Heinrich Berlin has
20:05 a history or rather considering its
20:07 multiple definitions in different
20:09 academic and professional domains has
20:13 many histories far from the apparently
20:16 neutral and universal entity imagined by
20:19 philosophers after cont space can be
20:21 seen in the light of these histories as
20:23 a complex cultural and intellectual
20:26 construct continually shifting in its
20:28 formulation application and
20:31 instrumentality in historical cultural
20:33 terms like the body or like sexuality
20:37 itself space may be considered not so
20:39 much as a constant but as a concept that
20:42 shifts and changes over time according
20:45 to the conceive er and a perceiver to
20:47 assert this of course doesn't mean that
20:48 what a Marxist philosopher space-like
20:51 only Lefevre calls material space does
20:52 not exist
20:54 certainly the physical enclosure and
20:57 occupation of space together with the
20:59 instrumental expansion consumption and
21:00 reproduction of territories and
21:03 boundaries assisted by technology
21:05 mapping and viewing is a constant factor
21:08 in our lives spaces in this sense
21:11 produced like any other material object
21:13 with corresponding social political and
21:16 economic effects but precisely because
21:18 of this cultural social and economic
21:21 production this space however measurable
21:24 is not as Cantonese followers a pine an
21:28 unchanging a universal our priori its
21:30 perception and inhabitation are the
21:32 products of individual and social
21:35 experience space becomes contested at
21:38 its very origin as a sociologist georg
21:40 simmel noted at the turn of the century
21:42 social space is not so much defined
21:44 geometrically and in measurable terms
21:47 that is as it is quote a specific
21:50 psychological content produced
21:54 reciprocally by individuals perhaps for
21:56 this reason the word space has continued
21:58 throughout this century to designate a
22:00 central concept for the analysis of
22:03 architecture and urbanism generally
22:05 recognised by pioneers of formal
22:08 analysis by Heinrich Berlin and Elias
22:10 regal space became central to the
22:11 architectural histories of August
22:14 Marshall and Paul Frankfurt and was
22:15 canonized so to speak within the
22:17 modernist tradition by the publication
22:19 of secret Gideon's space time in
22:23 architecture in 1941 given new art
22:25 historical life by only saw steel in
22:30 v-day form of 1943 sir Gideon as the
22:32 most modernist architect the invention
22:35 of a new space conception was the right
22:38 motif of modernity itself and this theme
22:40 was taken up after World War two by
22:43 Bruno's AV Rex Martinson and Renato de
22:45 Frisco the political and social
22:48 characteristics of space theorized in
22:50 political geography and sociology since
22:52 the turn of the century by Theodor Herzl
22:55 zimo and how blacks were also
22:56 increasingly seen as keys to the
22:58 understanding of architecture and
23:00 urbanism in forming studies as diverse
23:04 as those by Sean Barlow von Paris and
23:06 the situation as critiques of urbanism
23:08 in the International Situationist
23:10 between the late fifties in the late
23:13 sixties psychological and existential
23:15 theories of space based on the theories
23:16 of Eugene minkovski
23:18 jean piaget and of course Heidegger and
23:21 Sartre we easily equally influential on
23:22 the interpretation of architectures
23:25 poetics remember the Gaston Bachelard
23:28 the poetics in the fast was first
23:31 published in 1957 alternatively
23:33 architectural functionalist were
23:35 comforted by the empirical experiments
23:39 of ET hall the hidden dimension of 1969
23:41 and robert's summer personal space 1969
23:44 also at the same time as being helped in
23:46 different ways by the manuals of spatial
23:48 organization turned out by Christopher
23:51 Alexander and Kevin Lynch in an eighth
23:55 rank flight late 1960s Marxist by Corey
23:56 Lefebvre and post-structuralist like
23:58 Michel Foucault their analysis
24:00 reinvigorated the idea of space by
24:02 relating it to power and
24:04 institutionalized systems of order
24:06 prisons asylums and schools as well as
24:08 the ideology who functionalism became
24:10 the privileged objects of study the
24:13 historians concern to locate and resist
24:14 the sources of power within the
24:16 professional discourse of architecture
24:19 itself post-modernism has similarly been
24:21 characterized as a reaction to modernism
24:24 whether in its spatial complexities or
24:27 its return to traditional spaces
24:29 critics like Frederick Jameson in a
24:32 seminal essay on the hotel Bonaventure
24:34 in Los Angeles have even postulated a
24:37 generalized postmodern space
24:40 notwithstanding this history of overuse
24:43 and imprecise application the notion of
24:44 space has recently shown signs of
24:47 another revival this time on two fronts
24:50 supporters of minority discourses based
24:52 on gender sexuality and ethnicity have
24:54 explored the potentiality of spatial
24:56 analysis for the assertion of specific
24:59 values and sites that might confirm and
25:01 sustain subjects and societies more
25:02 differentiated in nature and
25:05 construction in the imaginary Universal
25:07 subject of modernism and traditional
25:09 Marxism sociologists and urban
25:12 geographers have rewritten Marxism to
25:14 include the spatial and the territorial
25:16 in their considerations of class and
25:19 ethnic struggle gender theorists have
25:21 interrogated the space of sexuality
25:23 attempting to identify what might be the
25:25 dimensions of feminist gay lesbian or
25:28 queer space post-colonial thinkers like
25:30 homi Bhabha have stressed the liminal condition
25:30 condition
25:34 of exhibit subjects in space at the same
25:36 time a critical rereading of the
25:37 foundational text of art history from
25:39 reference tomorrow from regal to
25:41 Panofsky has renewed interests in the
25:43 spatial aspects of our historical
25:46 interpretation even as the study of
25:48 visual culture has engendered historical
25:50 research into the way in which vision
25:53 has been framed into the last century it
25:55 is no accident then that space has
25:57 beamed from the turn of the century on
26:00 understood as fundamentally modern both
26:02 as a concept and as a produced reality
26:05 and it's supposed modernity resided in
26:07 the most symptomatic disturbance in the
26:09 concepts of space since Descartes the
26:13 radical effects of temporality long
26:15 before the popularization of Einstein
26:18 the calibration of space to time
26:20 preoccupied philosophers and
26:21 institutions writers painters and
26:24 architects to the extent that space time
26:26 became a dominant like motif of
26:28 modernism the visual experiments of
26:30 maría and Muybridge along with his
26:33 running man followed by their
26:34 instrumentalization in the service of
26:36 time and motion studies and tailor
26:39 ization provided images of movement in
26:42 space that were ratified and exploited
26:44 not just in moving pictures but in the
26:47 overlapping and multiple exposures of
26:50 futurism and cubism the diagram of
26:52 Etienne moiré of a man jumping off a
26:58 chair from the the 1860s ree-ree priest
27:01 in a Duchamp celebrated nude descending
27:06 a staircase staircase in 1911 1912 in
27:09 architecture the moving subject in space
27:10 was given the role of forum giver
27:12 accommodated mechanically and
27:14 phenomenally through all the techniques
27:16 and representational devices of speed
27:20 and transparency and as the subject was
27:21 not only moving in its physical
27:24 dimensions the new space was called on
27:26 to reflect its shifting moods and
27:29 psychological states the resulting call
27:31 for a spatial representation of such
27:34 double movement physical and psychical
27:37 found diverse responses in modernism
27:40 from expressionist distortion purist
27:43 promenade in infinite space to the
27:44 psychological planner
27:47 of Surrealism for all these reasons
27:50 special ideas were particularly
27:52 attractive to modernist architects first
27:54 as a way of escaping the historicist
27:56 trap of stylistic revivalism and
27:58 incorporating time movements and social
28:01 life into the conceptualization of
28:03 abstract form in general and then as a
28:05 way of defining the terms of this new
28:07 life its relationship to nature the body
28:10 and the psyche the industry of Marvel
28:12 ISM indeed might be an often has been
28:14 written as a history of competing ideas
28:17 of space at the turn of the century
28:19 Hendrik Braga wrote on round Princeton
28:23 architecture in 1907 August indle who
28:24 had followed the lectures of fellow lips
28:27 in Munich joined spatial theory to
28:31 empathy theory in his the beauty of the
28:35 big city in 1908 both authors have been
28:37 seen as influential on the spatial ideas
28:38 of Mies van der Rohe
28:40 the Dutch architects and painters in the
28:42 de style group including Theo van
28:45 osburgh and Piatt Mondrian advanced
28:46 their revolutionary concepts of
28:49 neoplastic space in their own journal in
28:50 the United States Frank Lloyd Wright
28:51 took on the entire space of the
28:53 continent in his vision of a prairie
28:56 space fit for democratic individualist
28:59 s' is Viennese assistant Rudolph
29:01 Schindler dubbed this space architecture
29:04 in a brief homage to what he called this
29:07 new medium published in 1934 in France
29:10 the reflections of only Beth saw on time
29:12 movement in space were quickly picked up
29:14 by architects and artists and
29:16 incorporated in the popular writings of
29:18 Amie floor taken up by the painter Ozone
29:20 full and the architect of Abruzzi a
29:23 later to be elaborated into the latter's
29:26 poetic a vocation of a modernist it's
29:29 fast and easy blur or ineffable space
29:31 Syria's discovering ineffable space on
29:34 the Acropolis it was hardly coincidental
29:36 then that historians of the modern
29:38 movement armed with the same spatial
29:40 concepts in their own discipline were
29:42 able to find elite correspondence
29:45 between space and modernity in the early
29:51 and yet the idea of space has by no
29:53 means always held the positive
29:56 connotations attributed to it by
29:58 modernists from community a to Gideon
30:01 indeed it is far more often being seen
30:04 as marked by instability and an elusive
30:07 negativity as opposed for example to the
30:10 apparent securities involved in the
30:13 notion of place the attempt of
30:15 phenomenological thinkers from Rousseau
30:18 to bash law to arrest the fluidity of
30:21 space and to domesticate it for the body
30:25 and society in place has ever been
30:28 thought by the anxiety attached to space
30:31 and its tendency to invade even the most
30:34 defended of places the theory of the
30:36 uncanny outlined by shelling and
30:38 redefined in psychoanalytic terms by
30:41 Freud but stresses this capacity of
30:45 invisible space the unsettled space to
30:47 play to unsettle place in high militia
30:51 erupting in the Heimlich model space
30:53 after all takes its initial definition
30:56 from the sublime where infinite
30:58 extension whether a distance height
31:00 depth or light and dark approximates the
31:04 terror of the naturally infinite space
31:06 in the sublime of Burke and Schiller is
31:08 precisely that incommensurable
31:11 unknowable invisible nothingness that
31:13 represents if it represents anything the
31:18 very extent of our incapacities space
31:22 and boundary space and limit and more
31:23 importantly from our cuts for
31:26 architecture space and monumentality has
31:29 therefore been opposed to each other in
31:31 the modern period from the outset the
31:35 dream of bathing in space a dream suited
31:38 to the dimension of the crusiers aerobic
31:40 imagination was thus from the outset
31:43 countered by the troubling realization
31:45 that space of such was posited on the
31:47 basis of an aesthetics of uncertainty
31:50 and movement and a psychology of anxiety
31:53 with a nostalgic tree melancholic or
31:56 progressively anticipatory with its
31:58 roots in the empirical psychology and
32:00 neo-kantian formalism of the late night
32:03 century Robert wishes theories of
32:05 optical perception tailed ellipse
32:08 concepts of empathy and realm aesthetic
32:11 and Conrad's Fiedler's mentalism the
32:12 psychology of space was one that was
32:15 devoted to calibrating the endlessly
32:17 shifting sensations and moods of a
32:19 perceiving subject whose perceptions
32:21 moreover had less to do with what was
32:24 objectively there than what was
32:28 projected as seen the social psychology
32:31 of space as elaborated by Zemo was
32:34 established on equally insecure grounds
32:37 space itself as we have noted was
32:39 conceived by zimmel as the dynamic and
32:42 continually shifting resultant rather
32:44 than the neutral container of social
32:48 relations in these terms we might well
32:50 characterize the space constituted by
32:53 and for modernism a psychological space
32:56 this kind of spatial construction was
32:59 developed so to speak along with and as
33:01 a product of the modern subject and
33:03 enter the vocabulary of Urbanists and
33:06 doctors architects and artists around
33:10 the 1870s it was a space invented
33:12 initially to respond to what was seen to
33:14 be the pathological conditions of life
33:18 endemic to the metropolis conditions
33:19 that were to be described in symbols own
33:23 metropolis a mental life of 1901 it
33:26 follows the psychological space as first
33:28 formulated was- space or
33:33 psychopathological space construed as
33:35 the meteor in which flourished a gamut
33:40 of newly identified spatial socio or
33:43 socio mental diseases George Miller
33:46 beards neurasthenia shaco's hysteria
33:50 vest Falls agoraphobia here illustrated
33:53 quite self-consciously by Thai Baht both
33:56 claustrophobia here also illustrated by
33:59 Thai Baht one of the first of the
34:01 post-impressionist to understand the
34:04 psychological theories of space in the
34:08 modern metropolis these among many
34:11 metropolitan space seem most both
34:13 essentially modern and this
34:15 estranging the zimmel wrote awful of the
34:19 fear of contact a pathological symptoms
34:20 sped endemically in the
34:22 turn-of-the-century berlin constructing
34:25 at a spatial fear one that stems from
34:27 the too rapid oscillation between post
34:32 mass and distance in modern life beyond
34:33 this perhaps over literal understanding
34:36 of spatial pathology considered simply
34:38 as a matter of priscilla the-- and
34:40 distance in a generalized field that
34:42 gradually emerged what for Freud and
34:44 perfect perhaps for birdsong and the
34:46 little later for psychoanalytic
34:48 phenomenologist like regime minkovski
34:51 the gradually emerged a conception of
34:53 space that adhered to none of the
34:55 dimensions literal or phenomenal of
34:57 perspective or quantity
34:59 beginning with the space of the dream
35:01 and continuing with the space of drives
35:03 psychic space was seen to be a
35:06 simultaneous container of everything
35:08 that in real space has to be separate
35:12 and temporarily this freak in this
35:14 context it is symptomatic that the
35:16 initial our historical interpretation of
35:20 architectural space from Berlin on was
35:23 first worked out also in response to an
35:27 uncertainty and uncertainty about limits
35:30 precisely in the face of the difficulty
35:32 of comprehending space after the
35:35 Renaissance that barak space that seems
35:37 all together to break the bounds of
35:38 architectural stability and
35:41 three-dimensional harmony whether it was
35:43 the need to understand the Rococo in
35:46 France or later the Baroque in Germany
35:49 the terms of spatial analysis by the end
35:52 of the 19th century were conceived by
35:54 art historians in the face of what to
35:57 many was a distasteful signs of the
36:00 solution fragmentation illusion and
36:03 indefinable 'ti thus from Baudelaire on
36:06 the destroyed the disruption of passive
36:10 oppose Envato and Fagen are could only
36:11 be explained in terms of the spatial
36:15 unreal the space of dream fantasy fable
36:16 a myth
36:17 and this in turn demanded a
36:20 psychological explanation the fatto as
36:23 Norman Bryson has shown became the
36:25 subject of multiple psychopathological inter
36:26 inter
36:28 stations all of which converged in a
36:31 dissolution of classical space thought
36:33 so the painter of revelry of frivolity
36:35 of music was at the same time vato the
36:37 invalid the melancholic the painter of
36:39 psychological relations and moods
36:41 representing these unrepresentable
36:43 states by means of spatial ambiguities
36:46 obscuring the boundaries between reality
36:47 and fiction real life and dramatic
36:51 staging late for Coco space was held to
36:53 extend this transgression of clarity and
36:55 perspective all security into the erotic
36:58 from the brothers Goncourt to norman
37:00 Bryson himself Boucher and fraggin are
37:04 here on this famous swing of 1760 was
37:06 seen deliberately to suspend their
37:08 erotic subjects in a space that is
37:10 neither theirs in the way that the body
37:11 depicted through his perspective window
37:13 is anchored and distanced from the
37:15 spectator nor space of the spectator
37:18 their bodies were according to brighton
37:20 accessible but untouchable as they rest
37:23 on the insubstantial clouds or cushions
37:25 that ambiguously define their position
37:28 through objects of the fetishism of sight
37:28 sight
37:32 similarly for berlin the block which he
37:34 dated from the council of trent pushed
37:36 the limits of classical and renaissance
37:37 architecture to the potential
37:39 destruction an architecture of deaths
37:42 and obscurity was replacing an
37:44 architecture of surface and clarity the
37:46 Baraat recordings of rippln introduced
37:49 an entirely new feeling of space tending
37:52 toward infinity space he wrote that in
37:55 the Renaissance was regularly lit which
37:57 can be represented only as tectonics it
37:59 closed here in the Baraka seems to be
38:03 lost in the unlimited and undefined no
38:05 longer faced with a clear external form
38:09 the gaze is led towards infinity such a
38:10 dissolution of space in the
38:12 incommensurability verged on a
38:15 pathological need to be explained from a
38:16 psychological point of view that
38:18 understood every object to be judged
38:20 according its relationship to the body a
38:22 view that the reference had already
38:24 espoused in his thesis product prolegomena
38:25 prolegomena
38:27 to a psychology of architecture two
38:30 years before in the baroque the capacity
38:33 of the human body the empathize with the
38:35 building was stretched to deformity by
38:39 only a deformed body for
38:40 fundamentally identified with the
38:43 defamations of barrage space such a
38:45 psychological interpretation was to
38:47 influence that of Jacques Lacan whose
38:50 summation of the Baroque echoes Wirthlin
38:52 the Barack said in one of his seminars
38:55 it is a regulation of the soul by the
38:58 stupid regulation of the body equally
39:01 what the art historian August massif
39:03 called the round Villa or roundest out
39:05 sermons of arak was more a psychological
39:08 force than an aesthetic code setting the
39:11 tone for Volta Benny means melancholic a
39:13 rock of allegory ruins and fragments
39:16 echoing reference characterization of
39:17 the Baroque is representing the decline
39:19 in the conductance of the Renaissance
39:21 Benjamin wrote of a period of Baraka
39:24 tragic drama as one that witnessed and
39:27 epoch of decadence against the exact
39:29 mean between excess and deficiency
39:32 achieved by Renaissance harmony the
39:34 Baroque for Binyamin signaled the
39:37 solution of all forms and boundaries the
39:39 call for unlimited space and the elusive
39:41 magic of light leading to the
39:43 transgression of all architectures
39:47 natural limits it was no doubt for these
39:49 reasons that the Baroque proved so
39:51 seductive a model for Siegfried Gideon
39:53 in his attempt to provide a convincing
39:56 historical genealogy for posts through
39:57 this architecture
39:59 if Ruslan involves a Benjamin saw the
40:01 Baroque is representing an end to an
40:03 architecture of stability and perfection
40:05 Gideon celebrated just these qualities
40:07 as proto modernist exhibitions of the
40:10 will to overcome all structural and
40:12 spatial limitations in the service of a
40:15 new architecture Gideon formulated a
40:16 baroque that was both triumphant and
40:18 prospective for him the baracan is
40:20 complex question a renaissance
40:21 perspective stability and realist
40:23 representation its combination of
40:26 perspective multiplicity and illusion
40:28 found its most developed form in the
40:31 work of bali-ba romanian Guarani seed in
40:34 retrospect through prefigure cubism when
40:36 joined to the spatial interpenetration
40:38 exhibited in the engineering structures
40:40 of the late 19th century the potential
40:42 of the baroque was turned to a
40:44 constructive possibility this
40:47 possibility was Leighton it latent in
40:49 the skeleton system of construction but
40:51 the skeleton had to be used
40:54 as Luca Brasi a uses it concluded Gideon
40:56 in a service a new conception of space
40:59 in this model of spatial history the
41:02 role played by structural became pivotal
41:05 Gideon's pairing of barman is Lambton of
41:07 Santiago and tat Keens project for a
41:09 monument to the Third International has
41:12 itself become a commonplace as has his
41:14 analysis of viremia pillar of San
41:17 Lorenzo where quote the impression of
41:20 unlimited space has been achieved not
41:22 through the employment of perspective
41:24 illusions or of a painted sky but
41:26 through exclusively architectural means
41:27 that go to the very end of
41:30 constructional resources it remains only
41:33 for modern construction methods but to
41:35 overcome these limits and for Modern
41:37 architects to imagine modern space and
41:39 the equation spatial imagination plus
41:42 structural invention equals progress
41:46 would be for Gideon confirmed for less
41:49 optimistic spirits however Jerusalem
41:52 celebrated remark of 1888 one can hardly
41:54 fail to recognize the affinity that our
41:56 own age in particular bears to the
41:58 Italian Baroque reinforced their
42:00 perception of a post median age of
42:02 decadence and decline
42:05 ver Flynn hast had after all cited the
42:07 historian Karl just his characterization
42:11 of Piran AZ as having a nature entirely
42:13 modern in its passion embodied in the
42:16 mystery of the sublime of pace of space
42:18 and of power and compared this to the
42:21 same emotions which are Richard the
42:24 vogner evokes to act on us concluding
42:26 that in this fever of emotional torments
42:29 however cathartic all sense of classic
42:32 limits has finally been lost
42:35 Nietzsche ten years earlier had already
42:37 characterized the Barack as a kind of
42:39 vertigo that takes hold of the spectator
42:42 adding we can now study the phenomenon
42:45 of Baroque art very well if we are
42:47 enough masters of ourselves for the last
42:49 of the arts music has now under the
42:51 influence of Ricard vogner reached this
42:54 stage and this was an extraordinary pomp
42:57 of appearances suitable to trouble the
43:00 soul and the senses for many mean
43:03 writing in the 1920s the analogy was
43:05 more poignant still
43:08 two periods of decadence by means of a
43:10 symptomatic analysis of forms in tumult
43:13 disrupted forms who were emblematic of
43:15 the conflicting forces of their
43:17 respective epochs he spoke of the
43:19 striking analogies with a present state
43:20 of German literature and noted the
43:23 common themes between Barak tragic drama
43:26 an expressionist drama beginning with
43:28 the presentation of hands vessels
43:32 trojans in 1915 as with many myths
43:34 surrounding the emergence of modernism
43:36 the Baroque effect was seen in terms of
43:39 light and dark rather as modernity
43:41 itself was construed as poised between
43:44 reason and the abyss of expressionist
43:47 degeneration exaggeration in
43:50 architecture as represented by paul
43:52 scheer Botts manifestos and group doubts
43:55 drawings of 1914 to 18 expression of
43:57 space was deliberately constructed to
43:59 reflect the tormented psychological
44:02 states of modern alienation as Ernst
44:04 Bloch noted this resulted in the desire
44:07 to construct an entirely non Euclidean
44:10 kind of space what L listed he termed
44:13 pan geometrical whether or not such a
44:16 space was ever attainable the formal
44:21 exalts were clear as blocked noted
44:24 Expressionism experimented with it by
44:26 generating stereo metric figures through
44:28 rotating or swinging bodies which at
44:30 least have nothing in common with this
44:33 perspective visual space an architecture
44:35 of the abstract which wants to be quasi
44:38 a meta cubic sometimes seeks structures
44:40 appealing to be similarly remote not
44:43 organic anymore not even mezzo cosmical
44:45 such a space as we know it from the
44:47 drawings were dynamic crystalline and
44:52 potentially infinite the very notion of
44:54 a non Euclidean space one that might
44:56 escape the bounds of limited perspective
44:58 or vision and hints like Alice's mirror
45:00 act as a means of stepping into the new
45:03 world was however tantamount to an
45:06 admission of utopian impossibility for
45:08 in the events as bloc recognized the old
45:10 Euclidean world was entirely necessary
45:13 for any non new Trillian hypothesis to
45:16 have any effect of course he said
45:17 ironically the space of these bodies of rotation
45:18 rotation
45:20 Dafydd e'en as any other and the
45:23 so-called only new trillion pan geometry
45:25 provides positive ways for architecture
45:29 in symbolic illusion Panofsky to whom
45:31 block refers as his authority was
45:33 equally skeptical in his discussion of
45:36 Ellis it's his idea of pan geometry in
45:37 fact Piznarski noted the space of the
45:40 sisters imaginary turret aching bodies
45:42 is no less Euclidean than any other
45:45 empirical space this is why the
45:47 expression of spatial medium parked
45:49 along some precisely the medium in which
45:50 expressionist architecture found its
45:52 fullest development was in fact not
45:55 architecture that's film which was to
45:57 say that no matter how expressionist
45:58 space tried to construct its material
46:00 analogues it was inevitably bound
46:02 precisely because of its counter your
46:04 Chilean aspirations to the realm of the
46:07 imaginary expressionist space in its
46:09 most authentic form was for all intents
46:12 and purposes unrepresentable this would
46:14 be to say that expression of space was
46:17 truly in the domain of a modern sublime
46:19 but the expression is sublime while on
46:21 the surface subscribing to all the
46:23 outlying common places of the Romantic
46:25 period with most Bruno Taos
46:27 transcendentalist utopia of an Alpine
46:30 architecture carved out of the snow and
46:32 ice of the mountain ranges was marked
46:35 less by the sense of absolute terror
46:37 described by Burke that it was by the
46:39 lurking anxiety characterized by Freud
46:43 as uncanny a post psychological era
46:46 founded three-song not so much in the
46:48 extremes of light and dark but in the
46:50 ambiguities of obscurity
46:52 so the expressionist the world was
46:54 pervaded by a sense of loss a sense of
46:56 unexpected and frightening return a
46:58 sense of something homely heimlich
47:00 turning without warning into something
47:03 unholy or in Heinrich the space of the
47:05 uncanny was not a space of clear
47:07 boundaries or satisfying emotions
47:09 he destroyed indeed any such clarity's
47:11 in favor of psychological suspension
47:13 insecurity and the effects of estrangement
47:14 estrangement
47:16 it was astroid himself recognized on his
47:19 visit to the Acropolis a space that
47:21 might be experienced anywhere even on
47:22 the highest hill of civilised
47:25 aspirations on the site where he
47:28 expected the sublime he found instead
47:31 what he called the realization letdown
47:32 this but point
47:35 and also strange sentiments and loss and
47:38 betrayal presumably because having been
47:41 fed with romantic visions of what the
47:43 appropiate once was when he got there
47:46 there wasn't very much to see the heir
47:49 home of Western culture have been found
47:51 less than homely even as the experience
47:53 of the war as freud noted in his
47:54 thoughts on war and death had
47:56 transformed the happy Museum of Europe
48:00 into a bloody battlefield at the moment
48:02 when Expressionism heir to this
48:04 battlefield attempted to assert a world
48:07 of purity in glass the real foundation
48:09 of such crystalline utopias was revealed
48:12 in the sets of Caligari as much in the
48:14 wastelands of alfred kuban's the and the
48:17 reciter the other side to lie in the
48:19 uncanny eruption of the uneasy psyche
48:23 the destiny of touts Alpine architecture
48:26 was in the end to reside in Ernst Nunez
48:30 from the marble crypts standing between
48:32 a nostalgic dream of fairyland happiness
48:35 and abroad and ever expanding domain of
48:37 the terrifying chief Ranger Yuna's
48:40 marble cliffs transformed the Alpine
48:43 landscapes of Taos dream into the sillas
48:45 to look out the pointed towards and was
48:48 in some way complicit with fascism in
48:50 what in what George Steiner has
48:53 characterized its alienated coldness
48:55 such a perception of the young knees
48:58 behind the crystal might lead us to
49:00 recharacterize expressionist space in a
49:02 way that escapes the easy platitudes of
49:05 geometrical deconstruction and his
49:07 combination of the psychological anxiety
49:09 and geometrical instability to see it as
49:13 fundamentally warped space where space
49:15 would then be essentially psychological
49:16 and defined not so much by the clear
49:19 prismatic nature of a geological opposed
49:21 to this representation but by its
49:25 lurking opacity and obscurity Alice's
49:27 mirror yes but in this context a mirror
49:29 that takes on the role of a reflector of
49:31 the psyche something like that mirror
49:34 evoked by Jean Cocteau in 1937 as the
49:36 instrument and harbinger of
49:39 schizophrenia the space of such a mirror
49:41 is not Cartesian nor yet
49:43 Euclidean by projection it is
49:45 transformed into a space that turns on its
49:45 its
49:48 a bent or webspace the kind of space
49:50 that michi not yet cognizant of Freud
49:52 tried to imagine when he noted that we
49:55 can't see around our own corner
49:58 workspace would then be what Panofsky in
49:59 his seminal essay perspective of
50:01 symbolical form called
50:03 psychophysiological space geometry
50:07 transformed by psychic projection it
50:08 would not have to be overstating the
50:11 case but web space has been a condition
50:13 of modernist anxiety and alienation
50:15 throughout the century a hallmark of
50:18 architecture and its filmic video and
50:21 recently digital representations that go
50:22 further than a mere positive
50:24 construction of reality to reveal the
50:29 unstable conditions of modernity in
50:31 conclusion I would like to look briefly
50:33 at the persistence of these themes in
50:36 the present sandesh yet to a period but
50:38 as I showed in the book on the uncanny
50:41 has not been without its own anxieties
50:44 of dwelling the persistence of spatial
50:46 warping as a contemporary signal of
50:48 modernist operation aspirations has been
50:50 marked in the work of coop himmelblau
50:53 since the late 1960s work in which the
50:55 uncanny visions of Expressionism has
50:57 found appears a peculiarly appropriate
51:00 home in a space of canted planes
51:02 intersecting angles pyramids of light
51:06 shifting floors and tilted walls with
51:08 evident reference to the vocabulary of
51:11 the original expressionist himmelblau
51:13 formulated an environment that went
51:15 beyond imitation to construct an
51:17 entirely contemporary world of disquiet
51:18 and uneasy estrangement and distance
51:22 from the assistant insistent world of a
51:25 modern real as similar wrote as early as
51:28 1968 our architecture has no physical
51:32 plan but a psychic plan it was
51:33 especially appropriate then that
51:36 himmelblau were called to install the
51:39 exhibit expressionist utopias for the
51:41 Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 1994
51:44 in this installation and in many others
51:47 this is the angel bar of tourists and
51:51 here's doctor folly the psychic plan was
51:55 doubled in a tantalizing way it was once
51:57 an archaeological reference to an
51:59 imaginary scene long buried
52:01 that of expression is to topia before
52:03 World War one and the contemporary scene
52:04 of deliberate distortion and
52:07 displacement troy'd once remarked but it
52:09 would be impossible to conceive of the
52:11 same space containing two different
52:13 contents at the same time he was
52:15 speaking of a series of monumental
52:17 constructions over the centuries built
52:20 one on top of the other in Rome only in
52:21 the mind he argued that was the
52:23 retention of two places in the same
52:26 space possible but it is a peculiar
52:28 property of some architecture to
52:30 resonate with double meaning in such a
52:32 way as to approximate the imaginary of
52:34 Freud and the leaves after images of
52:37 Expressionism such double exposures are
52:41 evidence considering from the purely
52:43 psychological level of course such
52:45 architectural formulations of warped
52:48 space are merely caricatural
52:51 illustrations of states of mind that are
52:53 for all intents and purposes entirely
52:56 independent of actual spatial conditions
52:58 more the result of introjection of
53:01 projection than of any warped stimuli in
53:04 the world itself in this understanding
53:06 lay the roots of the already strong
53:09 critique of the sets of Caligari and
53:12 metropolis in the 1920s from Cracow and
53:14 others to the effect that in the movies
53:17 at least the camera itself was the
53:19 mobile instrument taking the place of
53:21 the moving eye and that's the meson sin
53:24 which emulated the bent and warped
53:28 spaces of the psyche itself no longer
53:30 should imitate the effects of movement
53:33 in its own forms the shadowy and
53:35 sinister movements of the camera from
53:38 high to low distance to close-up in for
53:40 example a film like Lang's
53:43 M were for Cracow and his contemporaries
53:47 far more successful Lang's M here and
53:51 the third man far more successful at
53:54 evoking the anxiety and terror latent in
53:57 space the street as hunter and the
54:03 camera following the hunter and M and
54:05 Peter Lorre as prey of the street itself
54:07 as registered through the rapidly
54:11 shifting lens
54:14 for us at the end of the century it's
54:17 perhaps even more important to insist on
54:19 this separation between the anxiety of
54:21 space and it's all too easy caricature
54:24 of representation in architectural terms
54:27 whether pure an Asian postmodern or dare
54:31 I say it be constructivists I began this
54:33 talk by evoking the post Nietzschean
54:35 critique of classical space and its
54:38 boundaries advanced by by tie in the
54:41 1930s considered from the vantage point
54:43 at the end of this century and in the
54:45 light of the history of modernist space
54:47 whether that of Luca viziers infinite
54:50 kind or of Expressionism x' warping
54:53 these remarks by Bert I become I think
54:54 all the more pertinent for the
54:57 interpretation of late twentieth-century
55:00 urbanist dict space certainly they may
55:03 be read as they were intended as
55:05 fundamental destabilization of the
55:08 normal in favor of the pathological
55:11 certainly as Rosalind Krauss and George
55:13 de Hubermann have indicated they presage
55:15 contemporary interest in the our form
55:19 and form in their direct critique of the
55:23 traditional idea of monumental ism but
55:24 if we think back to the uneasy
55:27 speciality of bowties frozen waters the
55:30 body in lake michigan or another image
55:34 from document the san frozen in winter
55:37 we might also be reminded of the vast
55:40 and frigid emptiness of the Kabuki
55:47 inherited today so proudly recall in the
55:50 search for a strong link with a supposed
55:53 transparent modernity I give you
55:56 something that's already built at the
55:58 heart of this apparently Universalist
56:01 vision of a space for all in which each
56:03 individual within math society might
56:06 find his one has to admit really her
56:09 home as if only the ineffable could
56:12 shelter the ubermensch there is I
56:14 believe as I have noted before a special
56:17 kind of anxiety from the point of view
56:19 of the architect this would seem to be
56:22 an anxiety of the small the particular
56:24 the banal and
56:27 every day ensure the claustrophobia in
56:29 the face of the crowded metropolis a
56:32 claustrophobic that hides its misogyny
56:34 its racial preferences is anti
56:36 communitarian and its anti social
56:39 prejudices beneath a veil of the
56:42 apparently universally transparent from
56:44 the point of view of the subject the
56:46 anxiety aroused by modern space has been
56:48 commonly translated into terms
56:51 approximating agoraphobia a disease
56:53 interestingly enough still referred to
56:57 in medical Turkey as housewife complaint
56:59 and earlier in the century
57:01 unhesitatingly attributed to the so tall
57:04 decadent and weak members of society the
57:08 homosexual the woman the following but I
57:09 we might be more inclined to see the
57:12 anxiety of space as residing in the
57:14 notion of space as an endlessly fluid
57:18 psychopathological condition a kind of
57:20 spatial trans Vestas 'm that anticipates
57:22 the often heralded potential
57:25 potentialities of virtual reality and
57:28 that in and of itself provokes an
57:31 instability of identity this will be so
57:33 to speak a positive critical reading of
57:36 the kind attempted by Walter Benjamin in
57:40 the 1930s and homi Bhabha today where we
57:42 might depart from both Luca Brasi and
57:45 Bert I however will be in refusing the
57:47 assumption common to each that space
57:49 might in any way be recuperated for
57:52 individual or social proper duties that
57:55 space is anything else but a trouble of
57:59 or with place in this we might be closer
58:01 to the original meat chief the many of
58:04 his more positive interpreters including
58:07 but I have wanted to admit for where
58:10 both Part I and Luca Brasi a despite
58:12 their obvious antagonism attempt in
58:15 their own ways to reconstitute space for
58:17 their own purposes Dionysian or
58:20 Apollonian for Nietzsche space always
58:24 represented an agonizing vertical of
58:28 potential annihilation a falling into as
58:30 Nietzsche said and Heidegger would
58:32 repeat but without too much hope in
58:36 finding solid ground beneath the public
58:38 square or at least the modern
58:41 public square was funny cheap the very
58:43 expression of modernity is lack of truth
58:46 the stage for the manifestation of every
58:49 mosque like false identity the space of
58:51 the public realm then was never so empty
58:55 as when fully populated a sentiment
58:56 echoed by Cracow and his
58:58 characterization of the mass ornament as
59:01 purest surface as for example in Czarist
59:03 risk characterization of the flies in
59:06 the marketplace as for its architecture
59:08 Nietzsche was unambiguous for the
59:11 beginning I worked through the new
59:14 streets of our cities and I imagine that
59:18 in a century nothing will remain of all
59:20 these hideous houses built by the
59:22 generation of those who think publicly
59:24 and that by then the opinions of these
59:27 house builders will also have crumbled
59:31 how wrong he was I think it's
59:34 appropriate that when Dominique devil
59:38 identified as public the space interior
59:41 of his new library a space in which one
59:44 cannot enter to read or to walk but
59:47 which one only looks into he compared it
59:50 quite aptly to the space of the
59:52 plastered I come forward but without the
59:57 Ovilus no spot no X no place just space