Architecture and Public Space
Provider and number: GA ČR – P409/11/2220
Duration: 2011–2014
Recitient: Institute of Art History, CAS
Principal investigator: Petr Kratochvíl
The aim of the project is to examine the relationship between architecture and public space, its historical development and, in particular, the possibilities used by contemporary architecture to articulate public space. The analysis of architecture will be placed in the context of contemporary civilizational development, including globalization, weakening of the meaning of local relationships and the strengthening of the role of virtual forms of contact and the subordination of the public sphere to commercial interests. However, the focus of attention will be architecture as a creative work of art that attempts to deal with these issues in a positive way, offering through its exterior form, internal arrangement and even semantic message a place for interpersonal contact and debate over common values and goals. The main outcome of the project will be a book on these subjects, both on the level of international and local architecture. Furthermore, a critical anthology of translated texts on the given subject will be prepared along with further specialized journal studies.
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