Between Bild and Bildung: A Sample of Re-reading the Making of Architectural Knowledge

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2023-10-09

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Sarıca, Sezin

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This proposal relates to ongoing doctoral research, which discusses the making of architecturalknowledge by theorizing the concepts of image and form regarding the German term Bildung(meaning culture, formation, education). Bildung is discussed with an apparent relation to the idea of“becoming”. The etymology of the term is interpreted as closely related to architectural terms.Etymologically, Bildung is a derivation of Bild, and Bild is interpreted within its dual meaning as imageand form. It means image, relating to imitation, and form relating to formation. The etymology of theterm also refers to formative processes and static conditions (bilden: to form, to create, Vorbild: model,Urbild: origin). The concept of Bildung can be considered as existing between culture andenlightenment, practice and theory, society and individual, ontology and epistemology. Learning fromthe various definitions of Bildung, the relationship between Bild and Bildung gains significance inunderstanding the architectural knowledge within and between paradigms. The term is historical;therefore meaning of the term changes and recurs in time, since paradigms reverberate in a certainlevel of complexity that can redefine Bild, and thus, Bildung.The theoretical-historical basis of the research expands from the nineteenth-century Germanarchitectural theory, institutions and production that can be considered as a transition from anontological to an epistemological framework, defining architecture as knowledge (Schwarzer, 1995).Accordingly, the first step is to trace image/form double through the nineteenth-century Germanconcepts of Vorbilderbewegung, which relates to singular and static images, and Bildungsgesetze,which are multiple form possibilities on the axis of tectonic theory. The intention is to trace Bild andBildung as architectural concepts understood through their German meanings. However, learning fromthe productive tension between these two concepts, these words are interpreted beyond theiretymologies to present a re-reading of the making of architectural knowledge. The proposal aims toexpand the curation of objects related to the aforementioned double through architectural drawings. Inso doing, the research aims to present different instances –especially drawings and representationmodes- within architectural history. The image-form double is curated through drawings that can be astarting step for a speculative re-reading. This initial curation includes representational translations ofimage-form double as “pinned” and “iterated”. The research follows the question: Can a framework bepresented apart from the linearity of history, which depends on the concept of Bildung and its “double”references to Bild (image/form)?Key words: Bildung, architectural knowledge, image, form, architectural drawing.

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/106266

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