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Keywords:

Gesture, Belderbos, Impact, Architecture

Abstract:

The intention of this paper is to be precise about 'how can architecture itself have an impact?' and about the conditions of thoughts that make possible an answer to this question. The paper shows that in the mainstream of thoughts –architecture being there to bring aesthetics on a distribution of function, which shall be shown as the anthropocentric position -, there is no impact of architecture on Man because Man is stronger as architecture. The author defends then a position where architecture has an inaugural act and then a gesture which is to sustain a precise sensibility. This position, which is not in an anthropocentric field of thoughts is not very shiny but very efficient to explain the impact of the gesture of architecture. Here it is: Architecture establish in the Real, at the threshold of the Reality, a disposition of matters, -disposition called 'Space'- for the first 'well-being' of the subject. The paper explains it point by point.