Pedagogy of Poetics of Architecture in Contemporary Georgia
Pedagogy of Poetics of Architecture in Contemporary Georgia

Summary/Abstract: The idea of using poetry and literature as channels to contemporary architectural design dates back to the last years of the 1980s when the poetics of architecture was recognised as anacademic discipline. In the West, the first publication on the subject was released in 1990. Concurrently,although independently, the studio-workshop bearing the same title of this discipline was set up by ShotaBostanashvili at the Technical University of Georgia. Paper architecture, a movement developed in theformer Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, was the preferred medium utilised to teach architecture atthe studio-workshop. This workshop, which is still run today by David Bostanashvili, introducedmetacultural discourse in architecture. The Bostanashvilis’ poetics of architecture is based on a triad,namely Image-Name-House. For Shota Bostanashvili, poetics of architecture meant the relationshipbetween ideas, words and things. For David Bostanashvili, it meant an interdisciplinary theoreticalframework wherein the concept of Image refers to phenomenology, that of Name refers to semiotics, andHouse infers the philosophical reflections on architecture.

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