Hermeneutics – Interpretation of the Image of Architecture
[ 1 ] Instytut Architektury Wnętrz i Wzornictwa Przemysłowego, Wydział Architektury, Politechnika Poznańska | [ P ] employee
2023
chapter in monograph
english
- work of art
- visual perception
- space
EN The cognitive value of science largely depends on the quality of its visual representations, which precede or follow its expressive discourse [Wunenburger 2011: 191]. [translator’s own translation] Perception of architecture as arts implies the deepening and strengthening of the relations between the designer and the user, it thus further underlies the classification of the created spaces and brings about new analysis options. Interpretation of an image involves the activation of the sense of cognition that might in the end optimize design processes and the level of architectural context. An interpretative image - imagined architecture - is a reflection of the quality of the architectural form, a specific type of mirror. The transposition of architectural projections or architecture itself onto a 2D plane constitutes a separate artistic value perceived in terms of pure art, it will, moreover, play an important role in scientific discourse as an interdisciplinary element joining a variety of research fields. Research methods, based on the analyses of the selected facilities and the interpretative recordings, will pave the right road to architectural creation. At the same time, assessments of forms, functions, or context registered by an intuitively working sense of cognition, which recognizes the feeling of safety and comfort, will furnish the designers and users with the answers to the questions “How do we perceive architecture?” or “How can we participate in the process of its creation to assure it meets our expectations?” To define architecture through senses, we need to resort to the processes of visual perception and visual thinking that can be next transposed into artistic works (paintings) implying certain positive or negative emotions, depending on the relations between the viewer and architecture, and indirectly - between the designer and the user.
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