Autopia as new perceptual regime: mobilized gaze and architectural design

作     者：Charitonidou, Marianna 

作者机构：Chair of the History and Theory of Urban Design Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture (gta) Department of Architecture ETH Zürich Stefano-Franscini-Platz 5 Zurich 8093 Switzerland School of Architecture National Technical University of Athens 42 Patission Street Athens 106 82 Greece Faculty of Art History and Theory Athens School of Fine Arts 42 Patission Street Athens 106 82 Greece 

出 版 物：《City, Territory and Architecture》 (City, Territ. Archit.)

年 卷 期：2021年第8卷第1期

页      面：1-25页

基　　金：Stavros Niarchos Foundation, SNF Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, ETH Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, FCT, (Incentivo/SAU/LA0001/2013) 

主　　题：Aldo Rossi Alison and Peter Smithson Automobile vision John Lautner Photography Semi-directedness Sequentiality Snapshot aesthetics 

摘      要：The automobile has reshaped our conceptions of space and our modes of accessing and penetrating the urban and non-urban territory in multiple ways, revolutionizing how architects perceive the city and contributing significantly to the transformation of the relationship between architecture and the city. Despite the fact that many architects and architectural critics and theorists have been attracted to automobile vision, in the field of history and theory of architecture and urban design, many questions concerning the impact of the automobile on our perception of the city and its territory have not yet been explored in depth. This is surprising when one considers that no other single factor changed the city so drastically during the twentieth century as the pervasive presence of the automobile. The article examines three different cases of architects—John Lautner, Alison and Peter Smithson, and Aldo Rossi—who tried to construct new visual regimes in photography from the car. The main objective is to present how new visual regimes in photography from the car informed in various ways the visual attitudes in their designs of buildings. The interexchange between the ways of capturing the views from the car and the formation of new design methods can explain the necessity to establish a new theoretical framework offering the possibility to historians of architecture and urban design to address in a sharp and concrete way the reciprocal relation between automobile vision and design approaches. © 2021, The Author(s).