Platforms: Architecture and the Use of the Ground is Dogma's study of the platform—one of architecture's oldest and least examined forms—and of how it changes the way the ground itself can be inhabited.
About This Book
Platforms are usually read as instruments of power: the raised base that sets a temple, palace or monument apart. Dogma, the Brussels practice of Pier Vittorio Aureli and Martino Tattara, propose a broader reading. By lifting, levelling and bounding a piece of ground, the platform also creates a common place—somewhere to gather, to orient oneself and to meet others.
Treating the platform as an archetype that recurs across many cultures and periods, the book brings together a subject that has received surprisingly little sustained attention in architectural history and theory.
Key Features
- A focused study of the platform as an architectural archetype
- Examples drawn from a wide range of cultures and historical periods
- Illustrated throughout with plans and drawings
- Large square format suited to the drawings
What You'll Discover
- How platforms redefine the relationship between architecture and the ground
- The double role of the platform as a symbol of power and a place of gathering
- Why a seemingly elementary form carries such cultural weight
- A way of reading landscape and building as a single operation
About the Author
Dogma is a Brussels-based architecture studio founded by Pier Vittorio Aureli and Martino Tattara in 2002. Alongside built and unbuilt projects, the practice runs a sustained research program on the city, the ground and collective forms of living, published as a series of large-format studies. Aureli is also one of the most influential architectural theorists of his generation, the author of The Project of Autonomy and The Possibility of an Absolute Architecture.
Specifications
- Format: Paperback
- Dimensions: 297 × 297 mm
- Pages: 115
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9788894030686
- Publisher: Black Square
Perfect For: Architects, landscape architects and students of architectural history and theory.