UPGRADE IN THE PUBLIC SPACE. THE RESPONSE OF ARCHITECTURE TO THE COMMUNITY ISSUES Cover Image

UPGRADE VIS-A-VIS DE SPAȚIUL PUBLIC AZI – CONSIDERAȚII PRIVIND RĂSPUNSUL ARHITECTURII LA PROBLEMELE COMUNITĂȚII
UPGRADE IN THE PUBLIC SPACE. THE RESPONSE OF ARCHITECTURE TO THE COMMUNITY ISSUES

Author(s): Mihai Grigorescu
Subject(s): Architecture, Rural and urban sociology, Sociology of Art
Published by: Editura Universitară “Ion Mincu”
Keywords: public space; private space; intermediary space; “nonfinite” conceived space; community; communication; participation; experimentation;

Summary/Abstract: Public space issue is debated by specialists of various fields, constitutes a perfect theme of an interdisciplinary approach. Architects, together with philosophers, sociologists and psychologists contribute to this demarche, coming from the contemporary society’s demands, in order to formulate a pertinent answer. What does the contemporary society mean? What is the society’s demand and what is the answer that architecture could give? What is the cause of appearance of new fields of activity and of permanently updating of others? Will be debated three concepts considered to be important: COMMUNICATION – PARTICIPATION – EXPERIMENTATION It will be checked the validity of each vis-à-vis to contemporary situation. A plausible answer of architecture could be “the non-finite space conceiving” related to the community problems. What does community mean? What is the connection between individual and community how to strengthen these links? How the individual can be pull out of inertia from the architectural point of view?

  • Issue Year: 2012
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 267-288
  • Page Count: 22
  • Language: English, Romanian