Taboo and Transgression: Architecture and Desire..

Bernard Tschumi is a deconstructivist architect, writer, and educator. Through the article, he has derived several pleasure of fragment of architecture which is fragments of geometry, mask, bondage, excess, and eroticism. According to Tschumi, pleasure of architecture can only be achieved by both pleasure of space and pleasure of geometry. They are both gather to create pleasure of architecture.

Throughout the article, idea of pleasure still seem sacrilegious to modern architectural theory. It’s why architects rarely transgress its limit even from the past of the time until now. In the modern architecture, it’s still a desire to exceed the limit that has been set in the architecture world. Due to tschumi, there is only space when there held an event. By regulating events, the extreme limit-conditions of architectural program became criteria to evaluate a building's capacity to function as a device capable of social organization. However, by architects itself to exist their limit will make them to explore more and form pleasing design. Architecture is inherently sensual, which is mean, their built building by allowing our bodies to lead the way by our seven senses.

In my point of view, a space whether it is prohibit or encourage sexual desire is mainly affect by the design of an architect. In the past, sexual activities only be carried out in the bedroom, sexual activities is thing which is very personal and privately done by a couple. The design of a room will be enclose even the bed itself will have curtain around it in the past dynasty of china. In the modern generation, we shall encourage more space being design to be sexually desirable. Due to the more open minded of the modern generation, we will chase for more excitement, and that have eventually affected an architect design limit. For example, in the past, a bathroom is only for the bathing purpose, however in the modern, the use of semi transparent material for the bathroom that blends with the restroom, will eventually encourage sexual desire.

Traditional Chinese Bedroom


Modern Bedroom

The relationship between sex, place and bodily libido is interrelated between one and another. We can carried out sex in anywhere and any place, but the question come, whether is it the place enhance our libido? A place which is comfortable and relaxing therefore will be the first consideration of having sex. To enhance the bodily libido, sometime is depends by the environment. Due to Tschumi, space and concept are erotic when both of them are junction together to produce the ultimate pleasure of architecture is the in impossible moment when an architectural art, brought to excess.