建筑语言的死亡与更新——索恩《提示》中的“废墟—地层”意象

Death and Regeneration of Architectural Language:Ruin and Strata in John Soane's Crude Hints

英国建筑师索恩为他的自宅博物馆写过一篇奇特的手稿《提示》,文本结构与内容均表现出"废墟一地层"的意象。联系索恩所关注的语言更新问题与他所参照的启蒙时期倡导的"最初原",本文提出,手稿作为自宅的镜子,可以看做是索恩试图对古典建筑语言符号进行更新的实验,废墟的意象表达了一种在古典语言死亡中产生出来的新的语言形式。

The British architect John Soane wrote a strange manuscript, Crude Hints about his house in Lincoln Inn Fields in London. Both the structure and content of the text present images of ruin and strata. Understanding Soane＇s preoccupation with death and regeneration of architectural language and his reference to ＂first principles＂ in the Enlightenment, this essay suggests that his Crude hints manuscript, as a mirror of the house, may embody Soane＇s experiment with regenerating the classical architectural language, The image of ruin may be seen as regenerating a new form of language out of its death.