Foundation Pros

Order is intangible
It is a level of creative consciousness
Forever becoming higher in level
The higher the order
The more diversity in design
(Louis Kahn, Lectures and Writings)

?At the beginning stands a desire for expression,? (Louis Kahn) and not that of need. This desire is a kind of Zero Level of the imagination. ?At the center of the void, I am certain, a fire is burning.? (Yves Klein)

Beginnings are always multiple; a multiple ontology which is irreducible to unity. There is no prefigured becoming. Like in language, interpretation is a part of becoming, part of structural, grammatical and syntactical magic. In Semitic languages for example, the point takes the place of vowels, making interpretation an immanent part of language.

Beginnings are like a sponge, moments of absorption and then they are like leaps, moments of rupture. The sponge image could also be a symbol of a common Eros which forms the foundation of beginnings. The Eros of language likes multiple connections and open-ended non-determined orders. It is a setting in relation and imagining things which have not yet been.

There is a subjective, a root-like logic, a relational realm in the abstract mind which goes beyond the status quo to express natura naturans. This is where heaven and earth meet, where the fourth dimension sets in and a rhythmic vitality without transcendental reserve appears. This is Nietzsche?s critique of the self, to go beyond one-self to discover hitherto unknown horizons. Difference is not so much the ?other?, as it is to make something different from what it was before. To make a kind of rhythmic order, an unknown poetic order of multiple strategies and connections as an instrumentation for another new kind of knowing.

Because of this beginnings are also a critical knowing and a critical setting into relation. Beginnings are about another way of seeing, internal and external, imagining the unknown within and without of the known. Like writing on a blank page, order is not an a priori solution. Order is not a finished project but an open process. We have to invent what we want to find.

Beginnings are also about foundations. Like the ground in painting, foundations are diverse, visible and invisible. Painting is not just a retinal art. Like a building a painting has a foundation, a non-totalizing foundation. Like in painting there is no ?one? foundation in Architecture. Like each painting each building has its own foundation. This is its own wonders in beginnings. The foundation is the moment of suspension and a promise of freedom and another kind of vision and love. Like in language foundations are about presences and absences, the sayable and the unsayable. The first mark and fragment answers the totality. Foundations, like the ground in painting is there to hold a rhythmic vitality, - a dynamic. The foundation is beyond space and time in order to hold space and time.

This text has been inspired by Paola Iacucci?s Three Houses and other Buildings by Gangemi Publishers

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