Filosofiniai architektūros kontekstai
Philosophical Contexts of Architecture

Summary/Abstract: The article examines architectural paradigms from a philosophical point of view: the classicism of Greek temples, the idea of the panopticon in architecture, modernist attitudes, the relationship between privacy and publicity, and echoes of phenomenology and Zen Buddhist ideas in architecture. A 'cross-examination' method is used, drawing on both architecture and philosophy. The philosophical approach here means examining the origins of ideas and raising broader - ethical and ontological - questions. On the other hand, architecture and especially urban design express holistic (philosophical) attitudes that are applied in the implementation of aesthetic ideas and the realisation of functional purposes. In doing so, they reflect the way of life in the surrounding environment (both natural and historical).

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