Topophilia and Chronophobia

Authors

  • Alexander Rappaport Union of Moscow Architects; Union of Designers of Russia; UMA Internet-magazine “Architector”; International Association of Architecture Critics

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7480/projectbaikal.41.726

Published

2014-05-05

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Keywords:

world, space, time, transcendental, mythology, history, revolution, gnosticism, architecture

Abstract

In the article architectural ideas of space and time are connected with radical changes in the world views, historical and perpetual, transcendental and radical. It is a paradoxical comeback of Christian Renaissance culture to pagan Roman and Greek antiquity from its recent achievements denied in gothic architecture. Avant-garde in 20th century did even more radical attempt to tie prehistoric past and futuristic utopia in radical architectural forms.

Today we approach a new revolutionary change of space and time concepts coming to the end of modernism and global disillusions of cosmic expansion.