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Aesthetic Absence in Contemporary Architecture: Based on Three Different Reponses Distinguished by Michael Young

  • The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art
  • Abbr : JASA
  • 2024, 72(), pp.30-51
  • DOI : 10.17527/JASA.72.0.02
  • Publisher : 한국미학예술학회
  • Research Area : Arts and Kinesiology > Other Arts and Kinesiology
  • Received : April 15, 2024
  • Accepted : May 9, 2024
  • Published : June 30, 2024

Haewook Jeong 1

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ABSTRACT

American architect and theorist Michael Young distinguishes three different responses of architecture to the overwhelming digital image culture that saturates the internet space. These three are the Ethical Response, the Epistemological Response, and the Aesthetic Response. The first two implicitly represent the strategies that contemporary architecture has adopted so far, while the third is an alternative that is proposed as a unprecedented solution to overcome the previous responses. These three responses, proposed only for digital image culture, can help us to understand the traces of contemporary architecture in general, which has struggled to respond to evolving technologies and the social system itself. Based on this idea, this article attempts to broaden the implications of Young’s essay to contemporary architecture in general. In particular, it investigates Korean ethical architecture and the trend of phenomenological architecture, as well as the methodological structures of diagrammatic architecture and Parametricism. Based on the absence of an aesthetic response, a point implied by the structure of his essay, this article attempts to capture aesthetic absence in the major methodologies of contemporary architecture. This, coupled with the limitations of ethical and epistemological responses, guides the possibility of architecture creating a new aesthetic phenomenon in our time.

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