Празниот знак во модерната архитектура

Abstract

This paper is based on the poststructuralist and deconstructivist practices of interpretation in modern art, which is understood as an empty signifier that opens up potentially infinite possibilities for free interpretation. After all, the credo of modern art is to be open to a variety of interpretations. The main challenge of the paper is the application of these practices in the field of modern architecture, whose primary goal is to be functional. However, according to Umberto Eco and Roland Barthes, as soon as there is any cultural and social function, it immediately becomes a signifier. Thus, the equivalent of free interpretation in the domain of modern architecture becomes free experience. Public space should be arranged in such a way as to force its resident/user to “participate in the design”, as Manfredo Tafuri puts it. The ultimate goal of this understanding of modern architecture is to try to turn urban life into an event.