DALLA MATERIA AL MATERIALE

Abstract

The essay investigates the connection between matter and material. In architecture, in fact, the use of a material requires a deployment of forces for the transformation of a primary data into secondary constituents compatible with use and construction. The architect interprets the potential of multiple consequential relationships, giving shape and poetic substance to a doubling of matter into material as subjects of a unitary representation. The choice of a material, therefore, in addition to building the architecture, qualifies the purposes of a welcome by aligning the characteristics of a poiesis directly connected to the use of the material as a necessary and irreplaceable element of the composition. In the current dimension, it is necessary to keep firm, in the choice of the material of an architecture, the priorities dictated by a reason internal to the building within the hierarchies arranged by the compositional theme. A choice which, bringing back those intentions of adequacy already evoked by György Lukács for architecture, knows how to compose a cohesion between space, measure and materials, united in the definition of that value, evoked several times by Mies, capable of elevating the construction beyond its own use.