Modernity and its Visual Representations in Architecture and Design

Abstract

The nature of man is in every time and place the association of a body with consciousness, two aspects of the expression of one truth, distinct, but not separate. Both of these aspects grow, develop, and vary spontaneously, from life to death. But the individual can take control of this development and direct it. From the point of view of architecture, to the minute details of the interior spaces, then this is one of the capabilities that distinguishes man from other creatures in the ladder of earthly development. Two types of culture are branched from this reality, found in all countries and all ages, but with relative differences. Either the body is given more strength, flexibility and rigidity, in order to withstand the fatigue of hunting, war, and the daily struggle against the forces of nature, or the body remains the only goal of individual efforts. Because consciousness also has its requirements. The origin of this taste and those motives is not in the body, and it is certainly not in the environment around us, which calls us to enter into a third level of consciousness, in which we are active witnesses, with our thoughts and actions, able to choose what is commensurate with the realization of this awareness. What we call spiritual awareness, which is established by the liberation of consciousness from the constraints of the narrow personal ego and its union with the universal consciousness. The liberation and unfolding of this consciousness within us is a development, moved by love, that alone can help us understand the meaning of life in general, and the meaning of our life in particular.