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The Architecture of Belonging

Summary/Abstract: The Architecture of Belonging explores how architecture in a contemporary globalized context can remain rooted in culture, identity, and the emotional experience of a community. Through theoretical concepts such as the cultural archetype, third space, semiotics, and cosmotechnics, this essay defends the thesis that belonging is not a style but an ethical act, and that architecture is more than a building - it is a spatial expression of shared values, memory, and the spirituality of space. This scientific essay stems from empirical and theoretical insights with which Nikola Bašić's developed his architectural practice, first intuitively and later cognitively, as a form of cultural production with two social mandates: first, to be useful; and second, as a communication medium to promote the cultural and spiritual values of the community in which it was created. Hecalled the architecture resulting from this creative process the "architecture of belonging” and associate it with the Sarajevo School of Architecture, whose educational practices were crucial both in shaping his formative architectural habitus and for the emergence of those achievements from his opus that he classifyies under the phrase "architecture of belonging” - representative examples of which are illustrated in this essay.

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