THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PHILOSOPHY AND ARCHITECTURE: ON THE CONCEPT OF ETHICAL-AESTHETIC AUTONOMY OF ARCHITECTURE.

My contribution concerns the relationship between philosophy and architecture. Both, in fact, can be considered creative activities: architecture creates by giving shape to something that can be perceived (Gilles Deleuze calls them “percepts”), while philosophy creates “concepts”. The goal is to demonstrate how the link that must exist between disciplines must be based on echoes, on interferences, and not on mutual reflection, the latter being the case of Peter Eisenman, whose projects are based on the concept of deconstruction carried out in the philosophical field by Jacque Derrida. Starting from a series of considerations on the possible ways of meeting between philosophy and architecture, I ultimately arrive at underlining the need for an ethical-aesthetic autonomy of architecture in view of an effective production of meaning, observing how one of the causes of greater dispersion of meaning is precisely the fact that certain contemporary architecture works to construct meanings a priori, keeping the public in a sort of suspense of meaning, losing sight of the fact that - as the philosopher Koji Taki explained – “buildings are the meaning in themselves”. What then would make the design act significant in itself? Ultimately: what are the prerequisites for an ethical-aesthetic autonomy of architecture to occur? In response to these questions, ideas and reflections of philosophers such as Jean Baudrillard, Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, Enzo Paci, Koji Taki, architects such as Jean Nouvel and Toyo Ito are taken up.