建筑与文化认同

ARCHITECTURE AND CULTURAL IDENTITY

后种族隔离时代的南非民主进程方才10年,我们开始看到建筑设计新途径的首批清晰信号。本文探讨了当代南非建筑,尤其是新公共建筑的文化认同问题。作者认为,今日绝大多数的南非人,希望通过面向未来的民主之路,逃离种族隔离岁月的种种压迫,重新想像其个人与集体的归属感。建筑,作为一种公众艺术,在此主体再发现的过程中,明显必须扮演其角色。本文开篇,在南非长期受殖民统治的脉络中,发展了有关主体认同的一些文化政治反思,继而提出,建筑实践能够贡献于新的文化认同的3种途径:视设计为一种开放与民主的实践、公共空间的建造与设计中的建构记忆理念,并以当代南非建筑的重要作品分别诠释。

With only ten years into the democratic project of post-Apartheid South Africa, we are beginning to see the first clear signs of new approaches to architectural designr This article Investigates some issues Of cuitural identity in contemporary South African architecture, especially with regards to the design of new publlc buildings. The author contends that most South Africans today wish to escape the repressive impositions of the Apartheid years. Most wish to reimagine their sense of personal and collective belonging, in ways that open democratic aspirations for the future, Architecture, practiced as a public art, obviously must＇play its part in this process of subjective rediscovery. The article begins by developing some reflections on a cultural politics of subjective identification, set In relation to South Affica＇s long legacy of cotonial rule. From here the article coositiers three ways in which architectural practice can contribute to the formation of new cultural identities, namely, design envisaged as an open and democratic practice, the making of public space, and ideas of tectonic memory in design. Each theme is interpreted in relation to significant works of contemporary South African architecture.