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@article{ART002858262},
author={Chun, Jin Sung},
title={Tektonics as a Momentum of Governmentality: Reflections on the Intersection of Architectural Modernism and Fascism},
journal={The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art},
issn={1229-0246},
year={2022},
volume={66},
pages={120-148},
doi={10.17527/JASA.66.0.05}

TY - JOUR
AU - Chun, Jin Sung
TI - Tektonics as a Momentum of Governmentality: Reflections on the Intersection of Architectural Modernism and Fascism
JO - The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art
PY - 2022
VL - 66
IS - null
PB - 한국미학예술학회
SP - 120
EP - 148
SN - 1229-0246
AB - Tektonics is a basic principle that guarantees the autonomy of architecture. It has provided a theoretical and performative foundation for architecture since the establishment of the German neoclassical and historicist traditions in the 19th century through modernism and postmodernism in the 20th century. Judging from the outside of the architecture, the holistic matrix of time and space unique to modernity is inherent in tektonics. As tectonics of time, history in the modern sense is the very total control of time, as expressed most vividly in the philosophy of history by Hegel. In fact, it was an essential part of the omnipresent governmentality of the modern state. While historicist architecture tried to tectonically transcend the gap between aesthetic traditions and new industrial functions, modernist architecture, which claimed to be a political avant-garde, attempted to accelerate the progress of history and thereby get out of that track. Modernist architecture namely maximized the autonomy of architecture through the modernization of tectonics but was captured by the government's governmentality and therefore suffered from the self-contradiction of pure autonomy and political instrumentation. This dark side of modernism is no other than fascism, the reactionary modernism that ridiculed naïve utopianism, longed for eternity like death, and tried to eliminate politics with the power of art. The inevitable intersection of modernist and fascist architecture was most clearly revealed in the colonial spaces where the state’s tectonic rule/intervention was undisguisedly maximized. This is why we need a new architecture to be a suitable dwelling for human life and death, free from tectonics as a momentum of governmentality, more broadly, free from modernity.
KW - coloniality;fascist architecture;governmentality;historicist architecture;modernist architecture;modernity;tectonics
DO - 10.17527/JASA.66.0.05
ER -

Chun, Jin Sung. (2022). Tektonics as a Momentum of Governmentality: Reflections on the Intersection of Architectural Modernism and Fascism. The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art, 66, 120-148.

Chun, Jin Sung. 2022, "Tektonics as a Momentum of Governmentality: Reflections on the Intersection of Architectural Modernism and Fascism", The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art, vol.66, pp.120-148. Available from: doi:10.17527/JASA.66.0.05

Chun, Jin Sung "Tektonics as a Momentum of Governmentality: Reflections on the Intersection of Architectural Modernism and Fascism" The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art 66 pp.120-148 (2022) : 120.

Chun, Jin Sung. Tektonics as a Momentum of Governmentality: Reflections on the Intersection of Architectural Modernism and Fascism. 2022; 66 120-148. Available from: doi:10.17527/JASA.66.0.05

Chun, Jin Sung. "Tektonics as a Momentum of Governmentality: Reflections on the Intersection of Architectural Modernism and Fascism" The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art 66(2022) : 120-148.doi: 10.17527/JASA.66.0.05

Chun, Jin Sung. Tektonics as a Momentum of Governmentality: Reflections on the Intersection of Architectural Modernism and Fascism. The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art, 66, 120-148. doi: 10.17527/JASA.66.0.05

Chun, Jin Sung. Tektonics as a Momentum of Governmentality: Reflections on the Intersection of Architectural Modernism and Fascism. The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art. 2022; 66 120-148. doi: 10.17527/JASA.66.0.05

Chun, Jin Sung. Tektonics as a Momentum of Governmentality: Reflections on the Intersection of Architectural Modernism and Fascism. 2022; 66 120-148. Available from: doi:10.17527/JASA.66.0.05

Chun, Jin Sung. "Tektonics as a Momentum of Governmentality: Reflections on the Intersection of Architectural Modernism and Fascism" The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art 66(2022) : 120-148.doi: 10.17527/JASA.66.0.05