Striving for a Social-Democratic Architecture
Session
Integrated Design
Description
Construction projects are omnipresent in Prishtina. It’s difficult to walk in the city for more than a few minutes without passing new, modern apartment blocks or construction sites with
billboards promising luxurious living spaces to come. Architecture, during all the greatest creative periods, has been the mother of all arts — it has been a social art. In the historical golden ages, architects were “headmasters” who played the main role in the entire production process. However, in the transition from the age of craftsmanship to the industrial age, architects have lost their position of governance. Today, architects are not the “headmasters,” but are instead in danger of losing their position to engineers, scientists and constructors if they don’t change their approach and focus on the new situation. The architects of the future will need to express the spiritual as well as material needs of human life through their work. They will need to act as coordinators and organizers of an extensive experience, starting from the social concepts of life and the successful integration of thought and feeling, by bringing purpose and form into spatial harmony.
Keywords:
construction, spatial
Session Chair
Ajhan Bajmaku, Artrit Bytyçi
Proceedings Editor
Edmond Hajrizi
ISBN
978-9951-550-19-2
Location
Pristina, Kosovo
Start Date
26-10-2019 11:00 AM
End Date
26-10-2019 12:30 PM
DOI
10.33107/ubt-ic.2019.11
Recommended Citation
Arifi, Atdhe, "Striving for a Social-Democratic Architecture" (2019). UBT International Conference. 11.
https://knowledgecenter.ubt-uni.net/conference/2019/events/11
Striving for a Social-Democratic Architecture
Pristina, Kosovo
Construction projects are omnipresent in Prishtina. It’s difficult to walk in the city for more than a few minutes without passing new, modern apartment blocks or construction sites with
billboards promising luxurious living spaces to come. Architecture, during all the greatest creative periods, has been the mother of all arts — it has been a social art. In the historical golden ages, architects were “headmasters” who played the main role in the entire production process. However, in the transition from the age of craftsmanship to the industrial age, architects have lost their position of governance. Today, architects are not the “headmasters,” but are instead in danger of losing their position to engineers, scientists and constructors if they don’t change their approach and focus on the new situation. The architects of the future will need to express the spiritual as well as material needs of human life through their work. They will need to act as coordinators and organizers of an extensive experience, starting from the social concepts of life and the successful integration of thought and feeling, by bringing purpose and form into spatial harmony.