Limit-Space

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Limit-Space

Architectural Speculations under the Xenologica Condition through a Formal Reading of the Floor

Jordi Vivaldi

Limit-Space is an architectural speculation. It constitutes a spatial logic resonating with the ontological subjectlessness embraced by the 21st century and its myriad of multi-specie agencies. The book is driven by a primary vocation: that of defying both the Promethean flatness of the Platonic chora and the baroque fluctuations of the Aristotelian topos by fiercely opposing their 20th century common architectural condition: that of being measurable, that of being sistematizable, that of being homogeneous, that of being modern. Limit-Space capitalizes on the Roman territorial notion of limes. Its spatial nature impacts on the conception of the floor as an architectural element: it reformulates its continuous and discrete attributes by formal and performative differentiation, recovering some of the morphological traces characteristic of pre-modern architecture while marking a definitive departure from the architectural gestures associated with the 20th century.

COVER IN PROGRESS Publication date Size Format ISBN Printed · EN Price Mar 2023 6.5 x 8.5 in. / 14 x 21 cm Softcover · 216 pages 978-1-94876-577-0 $34.95 / €30 / £30

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