The Faculty of Interior Architecture / Interior Architecture
IT-23 | Visual Culture (aesthetics)
Compulsory Course | Hours/Week: 2C | ECTS Credits: 2
Department: History & Theory of Architecture and Heritage Conservation
- Titular:
- prof.dr.arh. Augustin Ioan
- Learning outcomes:
- The students will be able to discuss on aesthetic categories, values, judgment and a basic introduction in visual culture today
- Content:
- 1
Introduction to a general theory of the arts
2
General aesthetics and particular aesthetics. The aesthetics of architecture.
3
Aesthetic categories. Beauty. Beauty in architecture
4
Sublime. Sublime in architecture. Colossal vs monumental. Bigness. Sacredness
5
Tragic. Tragic in arhitecture
6
Comic. Irony, self-irony and humor in arhitecture
7
Heroic, tragi-comicul, picturesque. Architectural equivalents.
8
On value. Origins of the concept of value. Absolute value. Contextual value, aesthetic vs market value in the arts and architecture.
9
On truth in arts. On truth in architecture. Decorum and tectonics.
10
Aesthetics şi east-ethics in architecture.
11
Arts. Border lines and border zones between arts.
12
Kant on arts and beauty. Hegel on arts and architecture. Hartmann on aesthetics.
13
Architecture and its associated arts
14
Architecture in cultural millieu. Architecture and sciences (complexity). Architecture and social sciences. Visual culture today - Teaching Method:
- Teaching and comments on images and texts
- Assessment:
- Oral and written exam
- Bibliography:
- Bachelard: La Poetique de l’Espace
G.M.Cantacuzino: Izvoare şi popasuri
M.Diaconu: Pentru o estetică a tactilităţii
Hegel: Prelegeri de estetică
Hartmann
I.Ianoşi: Despre sublim, Istoria filosofiei româneşti, Dicţionarul operelor filosofice româneşti
A.Ioan Pentru o noua estetica a reconstructiei
N.Leach: Rethinking Architecture, Architecture and Revolution
PA Michelis: Estetica arhitecturii
C-tin Noica: Cuvânt ĩmpreună despre rostirea românească
A.Perez-Gomez: Chora: Intervals in the Philosophy of Architecture
C.Radu: Artă şi convenţie
B.Zevi: Limbajul modern al arhitecturii
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