Lecture 9: Snežana Vesnić - Limits of the Architectural Object

The lecture focuses on the significance of the concept of limit for theorizing the design process, understood as the architectural object’s transition from its ideal to the real state. It assumes the importance of the concept for the existence of the real architectural object. This ideal objectivity will be interpreted within the idea of determination, delineating the limits that distinguish the object as an entity from its exterior otherness.
Such a definition will be used to inquire into the productive capacities of limits, which could be considered as something that provokes the totality and unity of the concept by relating it to the outer world. Apart from delving into the metaphysics of sameness, such a definition of limits could help us understand architectural design as a creative process of alternately defining and destabilizing the limits that separate the ideal and the real sphere of an architectural object.

Snežana Vesnić is a practicing architect and Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Belgrade. Her fields of study include architectural philosophy and aesthetics, with a focus on “architectural concepts.” She is the founder and editor-in-chief of Khōrein: Journal for Architecture and Philosophy.

For those who are interested in presence, the conferences will be held in Classroom 201 Lingotto, Monday 22^th / 12.00-14.30, but it is possible to follow the conferences live streaming on the ACC Lectures YouTube channel

ACC Lecture Serie 2024 - Limits of architecture. Architecture of limits is curated by DASP Students / Phd in Architecture. History and Project: Federica Joe Gardella, Giulia Montanaro, Paolo Bianco, Hongye Wu, Federico Madaro, Federica Serra, Saurajeeta Bose, Caterina Juric, Marta Rossi. And coordinated by Professor Mauro Berta.

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