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A coluna como figura de metonímia, como síntese da Casa. Segundo Rykwert, o ensaio de Mário D’Agostino trata de distintos sentidos do habitar na chamada Idade Clássica e alvores da Modernidade, considerando obras edificadas, iconográficas e literárias.

english
The column as metonymy figure, as a synthesis of the House. According to Rykwert, the Mario D'Agostino’s essay deals in different layers of the act of inhabiting the so called Classical Age and the dawn of Modernity.

italiano
La colonna come figura metonimia, come sintesi della Casa. Secondo Rykwert, il test di D'Agostino si concentra su diversi modi di abitare nella cosidetta Età Classica e agli albori della Modernità, tenendo conto di opere costruite e letterarie.

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RYKWERT, Joseph. The column and the vultus according to Mário D'Agostino. Resenhas Online, São Paulo, year 15, n. 176.06, Vitruvius, aug. 2016 <https://vitruvius.com.br/revistas/read/resenhasonline/15.176/6165/en>.


A column may be any upright cylinder to carry weight – plain columns are a commonplace of modern building. Too often they are just neutral and impersonal building elements. That is not how Vitruvius treated them two thousand years ago in the oldest surviving manual to architecture. He describes them as articulated into three body-parts: foot, trunk, and head while they are also quite explicitly distinguished into different genders: the robust and male Doric, the slender and virginal Corinthian, and as a median – and therefore the superior – category, the female Ionic. Their variety could be explained and commented in terms of historic and regional origins but above all by the analogue – the varieties of human configuration.

By the time Vitruvius wrote, columns had been part of the building process for centuries, even millennia. And perhaps before they appeared as parts of building structure, standing stones and tree-trunks planted in the ground were seen as analogues of the bodies of the very people who set them up. So that the shadows they cast were signs of human presence and orientation

Mario d'Agostino has unrivaled knowledge of such matters and his essay provides an invaluable commentary to their complexity. And of course, he knows well that in advocating the most shocking idea, that of the house as a machine a habiter, Corbusier – that most radical of architectural thinkers, also found the essential guarantee that the machine he constantly invoked could, for all the lightness it gave building, only assure that harmony which he thought was essential to architecture by invoking the same analogue of the human body that had been so explicit in the articulation of antique columns.

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Joseph Rykwert, art and architecture historian, born in Poland, naturalized British. He studied architecture at the Bartlett School and at the Architectural Association School. Doctor by the Royal College of Art in London, he taught at the universities of Essex and Cambridge. He is currently linked to the University of Pennsylvania.

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A coluna e o vulto

A coluna e o vulto

Reflexões sobre a casa e o habitar na história antiga e moderna

Mário Henrique S. D'Agostino

2016

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