Architecture, modern empty and social space

Abstract

Modern Movement’s vanguard promulgated free circulation and space within the nineteenth century urban fabric. Moderns believed in urban space built in conjunction with green areas, esplanades and areas for free movement would set a new urban and social order open to collective life. The Glassarchitektur characterized by few elements, slender structures and transparent walls, so called "reductionist modernist tradition" by Kenneth Frampton. This tectonic of minimum materiality became one of the aesthetic goals of early twentieth century modern architecture. Critics denounced modernism because the overly abstract spaces where there is no place for empirical event, for ornament or to the social fact leading to an impoverishment of cultural environment and 'emptying' the public sphere. How can one recognize the struggle for identity in designed and built urban space? How culturally recognize the modern or modernist without giving up collective memories and tradition? This paper aims to understand modernist void as spaces of experience, both as a urban phenomenon in continuous configuration and as a historical fact. We assume that social space is not an ideal or totalizing representations as modernists tenets preached. In a hermeneutical analysis of the void, the interpretation of memories and promises constinuously struggle for recognition in everyday life breaking with the idea of modern architecture as object, completed in its project design and construction.