1993
Rethinking the primitive
Professors:
Nold Egenter
Penezić & Rogina
Time:
August 27 – September 5, 1993
The Fifth International Symposium for Theory and Design in the Third Machine Era was held in Grožnjan - organized by Penezić & Rogina and Musical Youth. The founder of architectural anthropology, the Swiss Nold Egenter, the leader of the Symposium, will speak about the topic, which is Re-examination of the primitive.
The increasing interest in anthropology of our time is understandable due to the process of transferring attention from the macrocosm to the microcosm. Namely, the guru of modern media Mashall McLuhan already warned in the sixties that after three thousand years of explosion, through fragmented and mechanical technologies, the Western world is imploding. Suggesting the saturation of visual culture (phonetic writing, typographic printing, the world of images), he heralded a return to audio-tactile culture and organic social community.
Nold Egenter claims that most architectural theorists today behave like zoologists who only care about beautiful animals, because they primarily rely on aesthetic and Eurocentric principles. That is why he declares Joseph Rykwert's basic study: On Adam's House in Paradise – The Idea of the Primitive Hut in Architectural History, from 1972, to be a scientifically dilettantish search for the primitive, and believes that no effort has been made to define architecture scientifically in its anthropological sense. dimensions.
Let's mention some of the topics that this architect, ethnologist, Japanologist will talk about in the morning sessions...and which will certainly attract the attention of a wider audience:
- Architectural research, Why, How, What?
- Architecture, movement, mind. Oceanic ship subject of modern architecture
- Botta. History is my good friend. Falsification of history as a design principle?
- Rene Magritte as an architect. Complementary structure of architectural space in Rene Magritte's paintings.
- The ritual structure of a traditional Japanese house. A contribution to housing theory.
- Polar asymmetry. The evolution of Japanese art from the agrarian cult tradition.
- Etc.
Grožnjan Summer School of Architecture
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