Open AccessArchitecture and the Distribution of the Sensible
Author(s) -
Nika Grabar
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
filozofski vestnik
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.103
H-Index - 7
eISSN - 1581-1239
pISSN - 0353-4510
DOI - 10.3986/fv.42.2.12
Subject(s) - architecture , dimension (graph theory) , politics , constitution , relation (database) , reading (process) , inscribed figure , space (punctuation) , distribution (mathematics) , sociology , epistemology , aesthetics , computer science , philosophy , political science , history , pure mathematics , law , mathematics , linguistics , geometry , archaeology , mathematical analysis , database
Following Theodor W. Adorno’s reading of architecture as a purposeful art, the article explores how the social dimension is inscribed into the purposes ascribed to architecture by establishing a relation between what Adorno calls a sense of architectural space and the distribution of the sensible as defined by Jacques Rancière. Considering Rancière’s understanding of the political dimension of different “regimes of art”, the article attempts to show how similar observations can be made regarding architecture. What implications do these regimes of architecture have for the constitution of a common world, given architecture’s vast spatio-temporal presence?