Abstract
Mannerism was the bridge between late Renaissance and the Baroque between 1520 and the 1600s. This movement was characterized by the destabilization of compositional elements through repetition and expressiveness, regardless of their function. This phase in history echoes a trend in contemporary architecture based on the repetition of functionless elements that constitute a ‘green aesthetic’ in detriment of sustainable systems. Ecomannerism is a conceptual vehicle to identify and evaluate iconic contemporary projects that are positioned between ecologies of practice and ecologies of symbols, which are directly related to the sustainable performance of the built environment.
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Mannerism requires the gesture of an artist in order to be identified, either artistically, socially, or symbolically
It is the result of liberating aesthetics from the ‘green stigma’ and leaving space for new aesthetic avenues that, most of the time, resemble unfinished mechanisms. If we continue this comparison, the exposed articulation of the functioning elements in an ecology of practice against the visually hygienic aesthetic of ‘hiding’ in an ecology of symbols, express and communicate an open process, which can be seen as a ‘complication’ of ‘typical Mannerist inversions.’. Both expressions of Ecomannerism reflect our current paths and condition, since by discussing the current state of sustainable architecture “we are talking about ourselves: the nature that we ourselves are
Summary
Mannerism requires the gesture of an artist in order to be identified, either artistically, socially, or symbolically It gets its most distinctive characteristics from the way the artist moves and uses their expressiveness to imbue meaning into a work. The goal of this text is to conceptualize Mannerism as an approach in contemporary architecture that makes use of an Eco-feature to artificially express an architecture imbued with a social, symbolic veneer of sustainability, rather than embodying actual sustainable performance. Ecomannerism is an interdisciplinary concept concerned with the interpretative potential of buildings to communicate in an expressive and didactic way ecological values that form part of sustainable systems in architecture that directly affect the built environment
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