ARSITEKTONIK( english version)

Architectonic – Scenographic

The term architectonic and, more specifically, the Greek word tekton allude etymologically to the metier of the carpenter and therefore not only to the maker of the primitive Greek temple, but also to the primordial role of the frame and the joint in the genesis of any built construction. It is hardly necessary to add that the term architect itself derives from the term arkitekton, meaning chief constructor. The generic term architectonic refers not only to the technical means of supporting the building, but also to the myth and the reality of this structural achievement; that is, an architectonic work should display in an appropriate way the manner in which the artifice interacts with nature, not only in terms of resisting gravity, but also in terms of its durability with regard to the erosive agencies of climate and time. This applies to all architectonic forms, irrespective of whether the element is a frame and hence strictly tectonic or alternatively made of bonded masonry or rammed earth and hence stereotomic. In either case, one should be able to identify the architectonic element itself or, alternatively, the revetment or facing by which it is represented or by which it represents itself.
Scenography, on the other hand, comes from the Latin word scena and from frons scenae, meaning scene, and is thus essentially representational in nature. And while the architectonic and the scenographic may often be mutually complementary, they can also be antithetical. It may be argued that they have had, and have always had, quite different affinities; the one arising out of building in the aboriginal or Gothic sense of the term; the other being essentially identified with architecture, or, more precisely, with the Renaissance in a specific sense.
Be this as it may, one can easily see how the current tendency to reduce built form to images or to scenographic representation alone (either in terms of production or as a mode of beholding, or both; the impact of high speed film, advertising rhetoric and modern reproductive processes, etc.), only serves to strengthen the scenographic or imagistic reception/perception of built form, as opposed to the architectonic

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