(in Polish) Architecture and Art 1800–2000, Part 1

This introductory course (Part 1 and 2) addresses the problems of the place of architecture in modern systems of the fine arts. The history of modern and contemporary architecture in Europe and North America (between 1800 and the present) is seen as closely interrelated to the history of modern painting, sculpture and other media.

This introductory course assumes no background in architectural history. It provides an interpretation of the history of modern architecture and art in Europe and North America, from the end of Enlightenment to the rise of structural rationalism and first avant-garde movements (Part 1). Two concepts will be analysed in greater detail: architecture parlante and Gesamtkunstwerk, which in a very distinctive way determine the status of architecture in relation to other arts, from the end of the 18th to the beginning of the 20th century. Boullée’s celebrated cenotaph for Newton will open the discussion on the modern paradigm of architecture as monument, while Olbrich’s Secession building, which still hosts exhibitions of art, will serve as an illustration of the 19th-century quest for a total work of art. The role of exhibitions in shaping the contemporary image of the integration of architecture and the visual arts will be presented in Part 2; Mies van der Rohe’s Barcelona Pavilion, which housed no works of art, except for Kolbe’s sculpture and the Barcelona chairs, or Diller + Scofidio’s Blur Building, will serve as key examples. The main problem discussed in the second part of the course is that of architectural sculpture, a term whose definition underwent a significant change in the 1960s. Architectural sculpture comes to refer more often to the works of artists, installations, site-specific works or works/interventions in the public space.

- A Critical History of Contemporary Architecture 1960–2010, eds. E.G. Haddad, D. Rifkind, Farnham 2014.

- Architecture and Justice, eds. J. Simon, N. Temple, R. Tobe, Farnham 2013.

- Banham, R., Theory and Design in the First Machine Age, Cambridge MA 1960.

- Bergdoll, B., European Architecture 1750–1890, Oxford 2000.

- Cohen, J.-L., The Future of Architecture: Since 1889, London–New York 2012.

- Colomina, B., Privacy and Publicity: Modern Architecture as Mass Media, Cambridge MA–London 2000.

- Colquhoun, A., Modern Architecture, Oxford 2002.

- Curtis, W.J.R., Modern Architecture since 1900, London–New York 2003.

- Damisch H., Noah’s Ark: Essays on Architecture, Cambridge MA–London 2016.

- Frampton, K., Labour, Work and Architecture, London–New York 2002.

- Frampton, K., Modern Architecture: A Critical History, London 1992.

- Giedion, S., Space, Time and Architecture, Cambridge 1941 (1967).

- Hitchcock, H.R., Architecture: Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Harmondsworth 1958 (1977).

- Loyer, F., Architecture of the Industrial Age 1789–1914, New York 1982.

- Mallgrave, H.F., Modern Architectural Theory: A Historical Survey, 1673–1968, Cambridge 2005.

- Middleton, R.D.; Watkin, D., Neo-Classical and Nineteenth Century Architecture, vol. 1–2, London 1977.

- Rykwert, J., The Judicious Eye: Architecture Against the Other Arts, Chicago–London 2008.

- Świtek, G., Writing on Fragments: Philosophy, Architecture and the Horizons of Modernity, Warsaw 2009.

Goals: 1. To understand the history of modern architecture and art as the field of affinities and integrations, and not as separate epistemologies; 2. To acquire the knowledge and skills to critically interpret the visual and spatial media.

Knowledge of course content will be tested in final examination (slideshow, identification questions). Students are expected to identify the works of architecture and art, by giving the author, title, date and location.