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Time Out: Architecture as a Refuge from the Temporal
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: Received: 8 August 2024 / Approved: 11 August 2024 / Online: 12 August 2024 (10:48:18 CEST)
How to cite: Nute, K. Time Out: Architecture as a Refuge from the Temporal. Preprints 2024, 2024080769. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202408.0769.v1 Nute, K. Time Out: Architecture as a Refuge from the Temporal. Preprints 2024, 2024080769. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202408.0769.v1
Abstract
Indications of the passage of time are indirect reminders of our mortality. Humans have often responded to this discomforting thought by attempting, temporally at least, to escape its relentless march through the notion of a timeless present. This essay explores how architecture can assist us in that objective. It suggests that there are at least three different ways that buildings can offer us temporary psychological refuge from the progress of time. They can include the fascination of seemingly timeless natural movement patterns. They can recall archetypal environments, and they can isolate us from the external world of perpetual temporal progress.
Keywords
timelessness; the present; natural movement patterns; archetypal environments; spatial isolation
Subject
Arts and Humanities, Architecture
Copyright: This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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