Aesthetics has memory!

Just like in life, the main tenet of architecture is its dynamic synthesis. A synthesis that is in harmony with everything, with the inside and the outside level incorporating contrasts, adopting various, user-friendly levels of communication, balancing out the individual feeling with the social one, reconciling privacy with modernism, without clashing with the environment, building on desirable limits in the interior and achieving harmony.

For example, in Cycladic architecture we come across materials and technologies which are selected to define the matching between the interior and exterior space, reflecting on the particularity and uniqueness of the landscape as a precondition of an evolving potential, preserving traditional elements and symbols of modern expression.  

This continuing quest by the architect to create different relations between the landscape and the building, drives to many possible approaches, alternating each time the dynamics of materials, their strength to render the exceptional, using light or shadow, or even the permeability of various materials as a natural extension that diversely redetermines the space.  Confirming through dialectics the multiplying capacity of showcasing, or concealing, separating or uniting spaces, the user perceives the situation, sometimes as a spectator, but in any case, it is the point of reference of a land and a culture with lively elements of memory. 

The approach regarding a residence, be it an urban or not, is not what we seek to highlight in this publication. The reason is that the process of perception and design of a space is based on observing interacting relations aimed at a cohesive outcome between evolution and emotions. And this is how the aesthetics of both is illustrated.  

Lena Koskossidou

Editor