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Abstract

It is customary to limit the potential for making an impression to the surface of an architecture. But buildings are not only faces but also landscapes.23 Not only do they consist of façades but also routes, and it is the latter which support observations of architecture from the approach of transmission theory. Architectonic transmission is inconceivable without the method of hodos — of the way. It is no coincidence that Kurt Lewin, who conceived the science of hodology — of marked out routes in a topological structure —, was much influenced by the First World War.24 The front is the starting point of the most emotionally saturated of all routes: On the way home relaxation spreads among the troops — with some definitely very architectonic consequences as evident in the tradition of triumphal arches and other ‘entry-architectures’.

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(2008). Entry/Exit. In: Exit-Architecture Design between War and Peace. TRACE Transmission in Rhetorics, Arts and Cultural Evolution. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-211-77970-5_2

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