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Since its origin, dynamics,
the physical theory which is identified with the triumph of science,
implied the radical negation of time, to a single and absolute time.
The sequence of the causes and the effects is rigorously deterministic.
It implies the reversibility of the relationship between what is
lost and what is created. It is also an idea of absolute space,
referenced and unifier. Thus, the focus governing spaces of architecture
is a point (centralized
space, Renaissance) or two points (ellipse, Baroque) to the line
( structural space), which creates geometrical links. These configurations
of focuses maintain the reversible links with space, coherence and
the structure of this one creates the subjective impression.
In 1915, Einstein
proposes what we now call the general Theory of relativity. He proposes,
against Newton, the revolutionary suggestion that the gravitation
is not a force like the others, but a consequence to the fact that
the space/time is not flat: it curved, is warped by the distribution
of mass and of energy which it contains " In relativity, there
is no absolute time, each individual has his own personal measurement
of the time which depends on the place where it is and in the way
in which he moves (S. Hawking, "a short history of time)".
Space and time are now dynamic quantities, they do not affect only
the data of an environment, they are also affected. Conversely,
the place thus also will depend on the personal measurement of the
time of each individual. In architecture, the man becomes a focus,
space is affected by its course and maintains the dynamic relationship
with him. This course, initially linear, will curve and generate
an architecture in which alread preexistsy the idea of a spiritual
course.
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