Everything should be beautiful in architecture
Authors:
- Tomasz Kozłowski
Abstract
This utopian thought that everything should be beautiful is seemingly simple to prove. But if everything was beautiful, what would the rest be? Again, you have to start with the words of a philosopher far from simplicity. We can start with Friedrich Schiller’s contradictory statement that “Beauty (...) is a form that does not require any explanation, or is a form that can be explained without concepts.” For an architect detached from any explanation of the philosophers it can be difficult. However, we would like to find definitions and try to translate it into the language of architecture, if it is possible at all. Polish philosopher Władysław Tatarkiewicz wrote that “Beauty is about unity in many ways... Beauty is about perfection...” In the modern world, such concepts are not obvious, and architecture has gone from beauty to novelty. There must be something beautiful in the modern world, not just technology, and architecture should become a field of art such as painting or sculpture, and architects should start drawing again instead of showing their work in computer renderings.
- Record ID
- CUTecf74d38bbe74267a63df4e997554376
- Publication categories
- ; ;
- Author
- Pages
- 637-644
- Other elements of collation
- Bibliografia (na s.) - 643-644; Bibliografia (liczba pozycji) - 15; Oznaczenie streszczenia - Abstr.
- Book
- 4th International Multidisciplinary Scientific Conference on Social Sciences and Arts, SGEM 2017, 24-30 August, 2017, Albena Co., Bulgaria : conference proceedings. [Book 5] Urban planning, architecture & design. Vol. 2, Urban studies, planning and development, architecture and design, SGEM International Multidisciplinary Scientific Conferences on Social Sciences and Arts, 2017, Sofia, STEF92 Technology Ltd., ISBN 978-619-7408-25-6
- Keywords in English
- architecture, beauty, art
- DOI
- DOI:10.5593/sgemsocial2017/52/S21.076 Opening in a new tab
- Language
- eng (en) English
- Score (nominal)
- 5
- Uniform Resource Identifier
- https://cris.pk.edu.pl/info/article/CUTecf74d38bbe74267a63df4e997554376/
- URN
urn:pkr-prod:CUTecf74d38bbe74267a63df4e997554376
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