Philosophy and the subject of her interests, combined with aesthetics, aims to develop a mature attitude of a practicing architect. The designer should be aware of the impact and importance of architecture on society. The series of original lectures describes the foundations that shape contemporary philosophical trends and the sense of aesthetics related to shaping the urban environment.

Scope of classes:

Architecture in the context of: cognitive, ethical, aesthetic, social, civilization

Philosophical sources of contemporary design attitudes, social changes in 19th century Europe

Modernism and postmodernism in the philosophical context: Positivism and the idea of ​​progress, Irrationalism and aesthetic needs

Normative foundation of architecture: Modernism and Postmodernism

Basic perspectives in the philosophy of art: formalism, essentialism

Hermeneutics, Institutional Theory of Art: Danto, The Social Circulation of the Work of Art

History of art:

Ancient art

Medieval art

Renaissance art

The art of baroque and classicism

19th century art

The art of the early twentieth century

Art of the "interwar period"

The beginnings of America's domination in art (including paintings by Pollock and de Kooning, Rothka, Gorky, Klein, etc.)

The Pop Art Revolution (including Andy Warhol, Rauschenberg, Lichtenstein, Johns etc.)

Great Rebels (including Bacon's painting, Basquiat's graffiti and painting, trans-avant-garde art)

Sculpture in the city space

Art Today (e.g. Mapplethorpe, Christo, Kruger, Holzer, Koons, Sherman, Serrano, Yasumasa Morimura, etc.)

Literature:

Art and the Turn of the Millennium, ed. B. Riemschneider, Grosenick, eds. Taschen, Köln 1999.

Czyż P., Problems of shaping public spaces in the light of contemporary philosophical concepts, [in:] (ed.) P. Lorens, J. Martyniuk-Pęczek, Problems of shaping public spaces, Miasto. Metropolis. Region, Gdańsk, 2010.

Dziemidok B. The main controversies of contemporary aesthetics, PWN, 2002 (selected fragments).

Habermas J., Philosophical discourse of modernity, Univesitas, Kraków 2005 (selected fragments).

Kotula A., Krakowski P., Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Warsaw 1972.

Examples of issues:
Modernism and postmodernism, the source of differences in attitudes.

Description of the role in the history of art and culture of one of the following works:

Breakfast on the Grass, E. Manet, Black Square on a White Background, K. Malevich, Fountain, M. Duchamp, Monument to the Third International, W. Tattlin, Guernica, P. Picasso, Andalusian Dog, L. Buñuel, S. Dali, VI , J. Pollock, 1965-∞, R. Opałka, Productions by J. Szajna and T. Kantor, Biały Królik, J. Koons