Educational Content of Today The Understanding of Architecture as a Collective Art

Gro Lauvland

doi:10.51588/eaaeacp.19

Abstract

Our understanding of the world is manifested in what we make and produce. Through the last 250 years there has been a change in the understanding of man´s place in the world. Our way of building is characterized by market economy and controlled production processes — as if we can control everything through our consciousness. Both the given nature and what is transferred to us through history, are regarded as resources made for us. Today our understanding of the world makes the cities more and more similar. This understanding of nature and culture challenges our human conditions. As human beings, we are embedded in the place, according to both Martin Heidegger and Maurice Merleau-Ponty. In line with their understanding the Norwegian architect and theorist Christian Norberg-Schulz argued, for instance in Stedskunst (1995), that it is the qualities of the place we identify with, and which makes it possible for us to feel at home.

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Our understanding of the world is manifested in what we make and produce
Since Vitruvius, architectural quality has been connected to the unit of beauty, usability and durability
Arendt writes that cognition ‘...the chief manifestation of the cognitive processes, by which we acquire and store up knowledge, is the sciences. (...) Cognition always pursues a definite aim, (...) but once this aim is reached, the cognitive process has come to an end.’

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Our understanding of the world is manifested in what we make and produce. Through the last 250 years there has been a change in the understanding of mans place in the world. In line with their understanding the Norwegian architect and theorist Christian Norberg-Schulz argued, for instance in Stedskunst (1995), that it is the qualities of the place we identify with, and which makes it possible for us to feel at home.

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