Architektura dialogu: w stronę przestrzeni pytań i odpowiedzi
The architecture of dialogue: towards the space of questions and answers

Summary/Abstract: Philosophy of dialogue, an important strain of the 20th century thought (to mention but Martin Buber, Emmanuel Levinas or Józef Tischner) found many followers, probably due to its ethical or theological character. However, considerations of the dialogical relation, of encountering the Other or the relation of the Inquisitive with the Respondent (as proposed by Tischner), seem to be very adequate for the situation of any new architecture that is inscribed into the extant context. Being also inspired by the concept of dialogical architecture (Jacek Dominiczak), the author aims at presenting a few examples of contextual architecture from Poland where a true dialogue took place. Such structures create the space of a dialogue indeed – different from the extremities of violent negation or total mimicry (unconditional acceptance). In the author’s opinion, those two poles (whose global ‘architectural representatives’ will also be mentioned, for the sake of contrast) do not allow for any dialogue.

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