The German Philosopher and Literary Critic, Walter Benjamin, claimed in his immense fragmental collection of essays known as Das Passagen-Werk (translated as The Arcades Project) that Architecture uncovers itself as the most important witness to the mysterious mythology of human condition (1002). The German critic 's claim will guide this essay in demystifying this 'mythology ' of the relationship between Architecture as an art to be interpreted in the written word.
What is this 'mythology '? If it is to be understood in the contemporary sense, then this mythology can be read as a collection of symbols and stories through which contemporary culture gives meaning to itself. This creates the idea of Architectural Spaces as witnesses to this …show more content…
The first is that both arts hold an important place in defining the present world. As the art of physical structures, Architecture gives a concrete model to the outside world according to the construction of the imagination; as much as Literature, as the art of the written word, provides a figurative construction to the same world. In this understanding Architecture and Literature are possibly the most unrestrained of all the art forms in their awareness of human like itself, and this evidence alone confirms the attempt of placing them into relation with each other.
This essay will proceed to explore one instance in which Architecture and Literature emerge together in ways that appear to bring down barriers between these two art forms, or at least to close the gap between their functions. The way in which this essays will do this is by asking the question of how meaning is created by Architecture and Literature through their close interaction.
During the Romantic times in 18th century Britain, the Boudoir offered a female equivalent to Psyche 's bower. As Keats described, it was a complete Architectural, antique 'sanctuary ' of female enigma and a 'soft delight '. To proceeded a brief history of this sanctuary is …show more content…
Architectural and Literary texts explain that the Boudoir remained an argued site well into the 19th century, 'one through which culture continued to negotiate its persistent concerns about the nature and expression of women 's personal and political independence. ' (Reynolds, 2010). Popular Architects and Architectural writes such as John Claudius Loudon and Robert Kerr attempted to rebuild the Boudoir for socially sanctioned objectives by detaching it from its original upper-class context and placing it within Bourgeois household economy. The novels written by female novelists from that time period, which include Mary Elizabeth Braddon in Lady Audley 's Secret (1861-62) and George Eliot in Middlemarch (1872), proposes that the infinite pleasures of women found in the Boudoirs created what Luce Irigaray has called an 'elsewhere of female pleasure ' that 'threatened the underpinnings ' of cultural institutions
What is this 'mythology '? If it is to be understood in the contemporary sense, then this mythology can be read as a collection of symbols and stories through which contemporary culture gives meaning to itself. This creates the idea of Architectural Spaces as witnesses to this …show more content…
The first is that both arts hold an important place in defining the present world. As the art of physical structures, Architecture gives a concrete model to the outside world according to the construction of the imagination; as much as Literature, as the art of the written word, provides a figurative construction to the same world. In this understanding Architecture and Literature are possibly the most unrestrained of all the art forms in their awareness of human like itself, and this evidence alone confirms the attempt of placing them into relation with each other.
This essay will proceed to explore one instance in which Architecture and Literature emerge together in ways that appear to bring down barriers between these two art forms, or at least to close the gap between their functions. The way in which this essays will do this is by asking the question of how meaning is created by Architecture and Literature through their close interaction.
During the Romantic times in 18th century Britain, the Boudoir offered a female equivalent to Psyche 's bower. As Keats described, it was a complete Architectural, antique 'sanctuary ' of female enigma and a 'soft delight '. To proceeded a brief history of this sanctuary is …show more content…
Architectural and Literary texts explain that the Boudoir remained an argued site well into the 19th century, 'one through which culture continued to negotiate its persistent concerns about the nature and expression of women 's personal and political independence. ' (Reynolds, 2010). Popular Architects and Architectural writes such as John Claudius Loudon and Robert Kerr attempted to rebuild the Boudoir for socially sanctioned objectives by detaching it from its original upper-class context and placing it within Bourgeois household economy. The novels written by female novelists from that time period, which include Mary Elizabeth Braddon in Lady Audley 's Secret (1861-62) and George Eliot in Middlemarch (1872), proposes that the infinite pleasures of women found in the Boudoirs created what Luce Irigaray has called an 'elsewhere of female pleasure ' that 'threatened the underpinnings ' of cultural institutions