A Sintaxe da Janela

Abstract

The work’s fundamental concern has an ontological character: to sketch the problem of the primordial and autonomous significations of the architectural syntax elements. The work chooses one of these elements: the window. It starts from the historical approximation between the window and a section of the visual pyramid, an imaginary construction of the renaissantist perspective theory. The window, in the architectural language, implies in the acknowledgment of an essential ambiguity: the window must insert itself in an orderly manner into the wall's plan - a typical reasoning of the modénature - and at the same time relate itself with the image seen through it. beyond its own plan, putting in evidence the three-dimensionality, heritage of the renaissantist perspective, fundamented on the Euclidean space. To see the window or to see through the window are alternatives that are available both to the observer inside the building as much as to the external one. Double-faced text, the window's sintax deals with the relationship of both of these sides