On the Need for Ontology: Notes on Andrzej Piotrowski’s Architecture of Thought

Салата, Оксана Олексіївна and Стельмах, Болеслав (2021) On the Need for Ontology: Notes on Andrzej Piotrowski’s Architecture of Thought Journal of Heritage Conservation (66). pp. 121-133. ISSN 0860-2395, е :2544-8870

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Abstract

Scholars who explore the transformation of space rarely deliberate on the non-verbal experience, analysis and documentation of architecture. Contemporary studies, so significant to cultural heritage, increasingly often explore areas on the borders of philosophy, sociology, anthropology or experimental sciences such as botany or biophysics. One book that stands out in these terms, especially against the background of other attempts at documenting, systematizing or presenting an epistemological perspective of the reception of space that, by principle, uses verbal tools of communication and information, is Architecture of Thought by Andrzej Piotrowski, an Associate Professor of the University of Minnesota.1 Due to the highly erudite and extensive scope of the presented study—from sixth-century Byzantium to nineteenth-century England or Le Corbusier, from Mesoamerican cultures, through London industrial- era advertisements, to Frederic Jameson and Charles Jencks, 1980s Postmodernism theorists—this sketch can only fit a handful of remarks. These remarks will focus on the most well-known and notionally and conceptually familiar phenomena. Because of this, we must unfortunately leave out his highly relevant thoughts on creating consumer needs via capitalist market culture, which architecture has become a part of, for a different occasion. The intentions behind the study found in Piotrowski’s book are very rare and valuable, especially in terms of monument-focused and contemporary cultural asset epistemology.2 Contemporary architecture, completely annexed by popular culture, avoids reflection, especially phenomenological reflection. The history of culture is perceived by an academically defined verbal prism, and scholars accept Heidegger’s assumption that “Where words break off nothing may be.”3 “It is assumed that verbal processes play a dominant role in the transmission of messages that shape cultural interactions.” 4 They predefine them. The steadfastness of messages that describe what architecture is and how it is created perverts that which makes architecture such an exceptional phenomenon.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Сultural heritage; philosophy of space; ontology; axiology; architecture of thought; negative dialectics
Subjects:	Це архівна тематика Київського університету імені Бориса Грінченка > Статті у наукометричних базах > Index Copernicus Це архівна тематика Київського університету імені Бориса Грінченка > Статті у наукометричних базах > Scopus
Divisions:	Це архівні підрозділи Київського університету імені Бориса Грінченка > Кафедра історії України
Depositing User:	Ольга Русланівна Ковалець
Date Deposited:	16 Jul 2021 07:21
Last Modified:	09 Dec 2021 21:49
URI:	https://elibrary.kubg.edu.ua/id/eprint/36909

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