Arquitectura y Buddhismo: La Ciudad del Nirvana
Key words: Utopía, Nirvana, City, Strategy. This thesis starts from a small idea that Utopia and Nirvana can be twin concepts. If utopianism refers to system and ideology, Nirvana is about phenomenology and psychology, which are inevitable genres when dealing with contemporary cities. It is also a c...
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| Tipo de recurso: | tesis doctoral |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2017 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) |
| Repositorio: | RiuNet. Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politécnica de Valéncia |
| Idioma: | español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:riunet.upv.es:10251/90392 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://riunet.upv.es/handle/10251/90392 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Utopía Nirvana Ciudad Estrategia. COMPOSICION ARQUITECTONICA |
| Sumario: | Key words: Utopía, Nirvana, City, Strategy. This thesis starts from a small idea that Utopia and Nirvana can be twin concepts. If utopianism refers to system and ideology, Nirvana is about phenomenology and psychology, which are inevitable genres when dealing with contemporary cities. It is also a counterpart of the orthodox utopian tradition to generate another point of singularity, entering into the Heretical dimension. The first objective of this study is to clarify a dialectical synthesis confronting two heterogeneous concepts which are Utopia and Nirvana. And the second objective of this study is to check the strength of this study at a practical level. For this reason, the investigations and the arguments procede in the following methodological orders. Ths first chapter presents the Buddhist mantras which are the essential teachings of Siddhartha to reach Nirvana. Chapters 2 through 5 investigate utopian urban planning projects in the 20th century for analysis, by using the Buddhist approach which was discussed in Chapter 1. Chapters 6 and 7 focus on Japanese architectures and gardens which introduced in Zen-Buddhist philosophies that can be the counterpart of utopianism. In Chapters 8, 9 and 10, the principles on epistemology, ethics and aesthetics are established with general arguments based on data analyzed by nirvanic criteria. And in Chapters 11, 12 and 13, the nirvanic principles are applied in the real-life city to verify its forcefulness, as a new tool to understand the city in an alternative perspective by incorporating urbanism, fields of psychology and phenomenology, positively and strategically. In Chapter 14, based on the data and principles that have been acquired in the previous chapters, a new advanced principle called Nirvanic Form is established, a practical index to describe and to value spaces in the architectural and urban perspective. In the end, Chapter 15 and 16, this study argues for the ontological meaning of this study for this modern era and the possibility for the future. Since no dharma can be perpetual, the strength of the thesis could not be eternal. It is sufficient if this thesis gains its reason for existence by checking its utility and its spirit in this age. Nevertheless the strength and feasibility of the thesis is already demonstrated by applying the idea of Nirvana to urban and architectural space. Logically, The City of Nirvana would be a city-dharma. Depending on the situation, this study reproduces the extinction of pain, and on the contrary, it can reproduce the accumulation of pain when the circumstance changes in the future. |
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