Building on Cedric Price's exceptional graphic synthesis, the chapter aims to triangulate the city's "state of exception" with the world-concepts of space and imaginary, investigating their reciprocal relationships. Architectures, understood as objects located in space, are the tools used by man to try to resolve his unresolvable - and restless - relationship with space, caught between the structuring complex of Cain and the heterotopic tension of Abel. In this sense, a Menhir at the center of a campaign ending the season of wandering, a stone arch capable of synthesizing democracy in Classical Greece, or the cancerous lattice of the postmodern metropolis, so similar to the net, are just a few examples in which the construction of the social world through symbols in space can be dialectically read as a product of the imaginary and as its producer.

The Complex of Cain, the Tension of Abel: Space, City, Imaginary

Zampieri, Pier Paolo
2023-01-01

Abstract

Building on Cedric Price's exceptional graphic synthesis, the chapter aims to triangulate the city's "state of exception" with the world-concepts of space and imaginary, investigating their reciprocal relationships. Architectures, understood as objects located in space, are the tools used by man to try to resolve his unresolvable - and restless - relationship with space, caught between the structuring complex of Cain and the heterotopic tension of Abel. In this sense, a Menhir at the center of a campaign ending the season of wandering, a stone arch capable of synthesizing democracy in Classical Greece, or the cancerous lattice of the postmodern metropolis, so similar to the net, are just a few examples in which the construction of the social world through symbols in space can be dialectically read as a product of the imaginary and as its producer.
2023
9781538175118
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