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Europe is also architecture. When Jacques Derrida counts philosophy, democracy and the Enlightenment, architecture is an essential gap. There is a number of artistic expressions, but amongst them architecture, as the space that we live in, plays an exposed role. Architecture is a criterion, a tradition that truly belongs to Europe. A debate on the architectural artistic representation of Europe from the past to the future will consolidate a place for Europe in the world. And this place does not, at least not in the principal sense, yield to the imperialist tradition. On the contrary, Europe’s architecture consists mainly of civilian or clerical buildings. Built architecture though is subject to its deterioration, while the intellectual achievement of architectural projecting and design are what will be left of Europe’s history. Architectural ideas are almost timeless as they always negotiate ourselves in our environment. But ideas are rarely acknowledged as deserved. In most cases, architecture that does not meet today’s needs is considered as part of building archaeology. But there is much more in historic architecture, a wealth of inspirations. Architecture has always been more than buildings. This artistic surplus needs to be exposed, to be presented as a timeless intellectual achievement that goes far beyond its original historical intention. For this we have developed a method that visualizes architectonic ideas. The presentation aims to demonstrate and illustrate this method by several projects developed by the authors in cooperation with archaeological research institutions like Cologne Cathedral and its Predecessors (by order of and exhibited in Cologne Cathedral), The Metropolis of Pergamon (within the German Research Fund Excellence Cluster TOPOI, actually exhibited in Leipzig as part of Sharing Heritage, the European Cultural Heritage Year 2018), The Palatine Palaces (by order of the German Archaeological Institute, both latter exhibited in the Pergamon Museum Berlin).
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Architecture Design Visualisation Uncertainty Knowledge
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LENGYEL, Dominik; TOULOUSE, Catherine – Europe's Architectural Identity – a visualisation method of ideas in NOTES ON EUROPE. THE DOGMATIC SLEEP. Proc. Edited by Eduarda Neves, Luís Lima e Nuno Faleiro Rodrigues. Porto: CEAA / ESAP-CESAP, 2020, p. 126-137