From What Times Is This Place? Form as a Chronotope in the Architecture of Enric Miralles

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2024-09-19

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In 1994, Enric Miralles published From what time is this place?, a brief text where the relationship between space and time is claimed through the form of the Igualada Cemetery Park and different conditions of time are considered. The title is presumably written after the book by Kevin Lynch What time is this place?, where the human sense of time and the relationship between the innate consciousness of time and place and the objective time of the world are addressed. Related to this concept arises the notion of the chronotope—from kronos, time, and topos, place; literally timeplace, defined by Mikhail Bakhtin as the intrinsic connectedness of spatial and temporal relationships assimilated in the artistic form. Approaching Miralles’ own words, this text examines the condition of architectural form as a chronotope in the Igualada Cemetery Park and in three of his projects to analyze, firstly, the strategies used and, secondly, the consequences of the connection of space and time in the form and in space and time themselves: the spatialization of time, temporalization of space, and temporalization of time. As a result, some reflections contribute to the contemporary debate on form in architecture as a spatiotemporal discipline: a chronotopic architecture.

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Artículo sobre la condición espaciotemporal del parque-cementerio de Igualada y la configuración de su forma como cronotopo.

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Álvarez-Agea, A. From What Times Is This Place? Form as a Chronotope in the Architecture of Enric Miralles. Architecture 2024, 4, 745–762. https://doi.org/10.3390/ architecture4030039
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