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