浮生·建筑——有关水平与垂直的猜想(下篇)

Floating Life·Architecture:On Horizontality and Verticality(Ⅲ)

人渴望定居可以说是与生俱来;同时,人总还是向往、甚至追求游牧生活般的自由。建筑作为令人安居的根本手段应是不争的事实,于是从本质而言建筑应是一门"保守"艺术。不过这并不意味着在建筑中完全没有幻想"浮生"的空间。在人类历史的长河中建筑其实一直被用来摆平安居与浮生的矛盾。本文将建筑中"水平"与"垂直"的几何秩序与这对矛盾并联,以便借助合院、房间矩阵与走廊房间几种模式对中西住宅的文化史作一番审视。

While the human desire to settle in a sedentary life is deeply inherent,we in the meantime envisage,or even search for,the freedom of nomads.Architecture needless to say is the primary instrument for human settlement;it is therefore by nature a 'conservative' art.This however does not mean there is no room for an imagined 'floating life' in architecture.Quite the contrary,architecture throughout human history has always been used to balance this deeply rooted contradiction between settlement and freedom.Through a speculative interpretation of the geometrical orders of architectural horizontality and verticality in relation to this human contradiction,this essay examines a short cultural history of housing patterns from courtyard,room matrix to room and corridor in both the West and the East.