Questioning the nature of space has long fascinated architects, artists, philosophers and scientists. Throughout the history, each have provided different definitions regarding the true nature of space. However, and this is what is being stressed in these articles, as we seek through the convergence of science and art in the modern times, considering the history of modern architecture as discussed in Gideon’s “Space, time and architecture”, as well as the theories of relativistic physics, we find out that both scientists and artists are coming up with the idea that the classic conceptions of space are too limited to be able to connect what we know and what we conceive of the world that we live in. One cannot anymore think of space as permanent; as just as an endless three-dimensional extent that is separated from the events that take place inside it. On the contrary, as discussed in Gideon’s article, extended from the vision of cubism, the many-sidedness of space releases infinite potentialities for relations with and within it and one has to project himself through the space in order to understand the true nature of it. All of these conceptions bring us to the idea that space and time which engages movement and the happening of events, can be regarded as a single concept. Added to that, as discussed in the Gideon’s “Mechanization takes command”, in more recent years, technologies have opened up new ways that suggest a revision of the approach to the conception of representation of space.
09.07.2014