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A world of fragments - Essays on East and Central European Architecture
“A world of fragments” prezintă cele 9 eseuri nominalizate la concursul de eseuri critice East Centric din cadrul Trienalei de Arhitectură East Centric, organizată de Fundaţia Arhitext deisgn în Bucureşti, în octombrie 2013.
Concursul de eseuri a oferit şansa participanţilor (indiferent de ţara de reşedinţă) să prezinte critic fenomenul arhitectural contemporan din Europa Centrală şi de Est.
Mai multe detalii despre concurs puteţi găsi pe www.east-centricarch.eu/triennale
Prefaţa cărţii este semnată de Juhani Pallasmaa, arhitect, profesor care a fost şi preşedintele juriului concursului de eseuri. Acesta notează în prefaţă:
“[…] Architectural images, experiences and emotions conveyed by other visual art forms – painting, sculpture, cinema, photography, and installation art - have evoked considerable interest among architects for some time. […] All the great novels of history offer inspiring architectural atmospheres and examples of the interaction of physical space and human character, permanence and change, inevitability and chance. […] Literary texts guide our imagination to construct entire cities in our minds. We keep erecting buildings and complete cities in our imagination, provoked and inspired by the enticing words of the writer. […] Great literature is our best teacher of the epic dimensions of human life, its causalities, interdependences as well as its moral and ethical realities. […] Yet, writing and literature can be utilized even as a practical tools in various aspects of design processes. […] There is yet another use for words and language in architecture: making architecture, or more precisely, evoking an awareness of specific architectural phenomena, or mediating sensations of architectural experiences. […]”
Ger Duijzings, membru al juriului concursului de eseuri, semnează articolul de evaluare a eseurilor, publicat în carte, în care remarcă: “The nominated essays provide thought-provoking perspectives on issues which Central and East European cities, and architects working in them, are facing. The issues can be roughly divided into two categories: there are those that are linked to the ‘local’ context, the turbulent history of (brutal) socialist urban interventions and (equally disruptive) post socialist change, and others that are connected with the peripheral position of Central and East European architects in the ‘international’ world of architecture. […]”
“A world of fragments” – Essays on East and Central European Architecture
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136 pagini, Ediţie 2013, ISBN 978-606-92734-7-0
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