The Art of Permanence
Master's thesis
Architecture fundamentally lies in the act of fixing elements in time and space. By doing so, it divides reality in two states: the permanent and the transient.
It follows that the question of the reason and the manner to do so needs to be addressed.
“Permanent” takes roots in the Latin permanēo : per (through) and maneō (I remain). It is “what remains through (time)”. Permanence is the resistance to the passage of time. It is what is fixed in space and time.
In a necessary reciprocity, permanence – which can only be eternal in the abstract world of ideas – exists relative to its opposite. The “transient” comes from the Latin transeo : trāns (across) and eō (go). To go over, to pass through time.