1) The idea of theory - its explicit definition, the idea of modern, modern style and modernism. Is abstract - normative definition possible? Reflection about architecture or instructions how to build according to principles of art in a form of written text? Theoretics of architecture in the 20th century, modernism, influence of industrial epoch, architect vs. engineer, autoreferential concept of modern architecture, materials, constructions and typology as a norm. Handbuch ( handbook) - necessary theoretical fundament of practising architect, E. Neufert and Bauentwurfslehre 2) Ways of reflection - interpretation of modern and historical architecture - brief summary of theses in the article: P.Urlich - Příspěvek k možnostem stratifikace české kritiky, Architekt 2/99 Petr Kratochvíl (eds): O smyslu a interpretaci architektury, VŠUP, Praha 2005 New concept - different interpretation, digresion from modern paradigms a) R. Venturi and contradiction concept of architecture, myth of modernism, internationalism and regionalism ( idea of critical regionalism), rejection of ideologization b) Phenomenological interpretation of architecture, K.Lynch and his picture of a city, Ch.N. Schulz and problem of resided and abstract space, roots and theoretical importance of philosophers Bollnow - Mensch und Raum, M. Heidegger - Básnicky bydlí člověk (Praha 1993), J. Patočka - Přirozený svět jako filosofický problém (Praha 1992, kap. III. Přirozený svět, zejména str. 82-90) c) Semiotic concept of interpretation, language, speech, communicability and conformity. Theoretical roots and importance of linguists - Saussure, Morris. Charles Jencks and his multi-stratified interpretation, minimally double coding of architecture d) Architecture as a depicting structure and a bearer of symbolic and allegorical meanings. Iconology of architecture as an alternative way of interpretation. e) Italian school of interpretation of architecture and its leftist fundaments. Social movements in society as a motive moment of changes of expression in architecture. 3) Important theoretical ideas - their connection with modern architecture - ideology Architecture as a tool of power, representativity, allegory and metaphor, ideology as a coherent set of ideas. Ideological perception of modern architecture. Architecture as a doctrine. Abstraction and classicity. 4) Postmodern situation and ways of possible division of contemporary architecture, from abstraction of avant-gard to abstraction of destruction... From ( social, moral...) ethos to banality and kitsch. Inconsistencies in formulation - reflection ( or attempt for reflection) and factual activity. Esoterism and raw practice. Comercialism. Theory without an architect. Medieval experience - theory is not written by architects. , L.Krier and postmodern urbanism. 5) Architecture on the treshold of information age - attempts for theoretical concept? - Rem Koolhaas, Winny Maas and others, idea of virtual architecture, postindustrial age a) 5 ways how to be ( or not to be) modern - 1 - narcissism after Esperanto, 2 - real technical modernism, 3 -modernizing conservatism, 4 - aesthetics of banality, 5 - normative modernism. Noticeable indication of five points of modern architecture declared by LC in 1927, evident tendency to minimalism after autoreferential concept of modern architecture b) Expressionism ( or also deconstructivism). Gehry, Eisenman, Coop Himmelb(l)au?New expressionism ? c) Postmodernism as Renaissance of abstract language - mimetics or creativity? New stage of dematerialization. ( Meier...) Historizing tendencies, quotations, once again abandoned return to history without historical experience.. Venturi, Graves... d) Virtual or real, organic and fluid, natural or artificial e) Consumerism and its celebration Living, work, holidays, transport ( personal, individualized) in new conditions. Relationship of architecture and other sorts of art. Change of primary values. New charters.
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