ABSTRACT
Imagination opens up possibilities for constructing an interpretative model because the type of reasoning implicit in architectural questions–holistic and philosophical, in the critical or prepositional domain– causes each rationally determined question to find no corresponding exact material solution. The essay develops accordingly, on the possibility of isolating Aristotelian propositions without determining a moral standpoint. On the one hand, the text is implicitly committed to ideology, utopia and fiction, while, on the other hand, from a narrative point of view, it is referred to the construction of a model of observation where fictional characters drawn from literature and cinema interplay with factual architectural events. Two stories unfold, both of them (a sort) of an architect character opposing a threat bigger than one man alone can withstand. Moreover, each case opens a limited set of ideological and aesthetic hypotheses, eventually narrowed down to a more or less effective use of architecture’s disciplinary discourse. The recorded situations suspend the validation of meaning, leaving open the ability to draw conclusions. Nevertheless, through the conflictual association of ideas with space-time support, limits that can condition the imagination of architecture are diffusely suggested to the reader.
