Prolegomena for the concept of constructionism in architecture

Abstract

This prolegomena initially consolidates ?meta-architectural constructionism? as a conceptual label for the operationalization of the architectural modalities of the philosophy of synthesis. After the heuristic definition of its key aspects was carried out through four key terms - reconstruction, relationism, processualism and projectivism, the second part of the article initiates a proposal of understanding and chronology according to the changing ontology of modernity, following Berthelot?s (Jean- Michel Berthelot) thesis about the three poles of the contemporary program of historical epistemology - the naturalistic, intentional and symbolic poles. His metatheoretical form of constructivism applies a version of the familiar scientific hypothetico-deductive model to cognition in general. As a kind of general vector of time, appropriation of epochal consciousness or a kind of sensibility in architecture, this post-positivist dogma deviates from theoretically too stabilized paradigms, categorical schemes or even less norms, but functions as a variable form of discursive, transdisciplinary, phenomenological and metaphysical identifications. Naturalistic metaarchitectural constructs indicate the core presence of the aspectuality of reconstruction and relationism, intentional constructs indicate the strong presence of metaarchitectural procedurality and projectivism, while the symbolic metaarchitectural pole is based on a complex combination of all heuristically recognized aspectualities as a modality of complex and combinatorial thinking and a methodology that is essentially postmodern scripture. The ontological vocations of metatheory of synthesis in the first two historical epistemologies of metaarchitectural constructionism are directed towards analytical constructs, while the third pole is directed towards the descriptive nature of constructs, but in all aspects of meta-architectural constructionism the role of some kind of structure or system appears. The intention is to theoretically standardize the ambiguity of constructionism in architecture as a text of culture, the consequences of which are rationalistic shaping of relativistic phenomena, as a meta-architectural procedure, protocol or a specific, simultaneously ontologically, epistemologically and methodologically based platform of thought.