Architecture as spatial storytelling:Mediating human knowledge of the world,humans and architecture

作     者：Fangqing LV 

作者机构：Department of ArchitectureSchool of Architecture and DesignBeijing Jiaotong UniversityBeijing 100044China 

出 版 物：《Frontiers of Architectural Research》 (建筑学研究前沿（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2019年第8卷第3期

页      面：275-283页

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学科分类：08[工学] 0813[工学-建筑学] 0814[工学-土木工程] 

基　　金：supported by the Fundamental Funds for Humanities and Social Sciences of Beijing Jiaotong University  China 

主　　题：Architecture Spatial storytelling Mediating Human knowledge 

摘      要：Since the 1960s,architecture has been interpreted by Structuralism as a system of signs,which results in the problem that architecture is isolated from humans and the *** contrast with this idea,this paper demonstrates that architecture is designed as spatial storytelling to mediate human knowledge of the world,humans and *** research method consists of an original survey of meaning and interpretation drawn from the fields of philosophy,linguistics,hermeneutics,humanistic geography,narrative theory,psychology,architectural theory and museology,in combination with the researcher’s personal perception and *** employing three elements-materials,configuration and time-to conduct parallel analysis of components of the world,humans and architecture,this paper contributes to an original theoretical model for analysing the idea of architecture as spatial ***,this study concludes that,since it is constructed of meaningful materials,meaningful configuration and meaningful time,architecture is a form of spatial storytelling,which mediates human knowledge of the world,humans and architecture,thus shaping human intellectual record both tangibly and ***,the fact that architecture is connected with humans and the world has been demonstrated by spatial storytelling,while also being carried forward from generation to generation.