Architecture and Philosophy: description
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Wilhelm Vossenkuhl, Department of German Literature, LMU - Thomas Splett, Department of Philosophy, LMU - Winfried Nerdinger, Director of "Architekturmuseum", Munich - Jochen Witthinrich, Architect and urban planner
The seminar explores the relationship between architecture and philosophy. We will deal with architects who are evidently influenced by philosophical thought. Architects like, e.g., Bruno Taut and Mies van der Rohe were influenced by Nietzsche. On the other hand, there are philosophers like, e.g. Wittgenstein, who were not only inspired by the writings and works of architects, but wanted to adopt the activity of construc-tion to their theories. In addition to the examination of the interplay between philoso-phy and architecture by means of examples the seminar will also ask questions of interest for both philosophers and architects: What are the criteria for architectural beauty? What are the standards of good human dwelling? What is the role of histori-cal awareness and aesthetic cultivation in contemporary architecture? How does the attitude of theory and perception relate to the attitude of constructing and building? What could it mean to understand pursuing architecture as thinking and philosophy as constructing?
Two preparatory meetings in Munich will try to bridge the gap between the disci-plines. During the morning sessions at VIU on San Servolo we shall discuss impor-tant issues concerning the relationship between architecture and philosophy. The discussions will follow short presentations by the students (see the texts below). The theoretical approach will be followed by practical exercises in the afternoon including excursions to various places and buildings in Venice, which may allow an application of the results of the discussions. Small groups of students will deal, e.g., with the connection and division that is embodied in the Venician landscape and express their ideas in sketches and models.
We would like to document the seminar in a print version of these sketches and of the seminar papers.
Literature
Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Das architektonische Lehrbuch, 1804-1835, in: Fritz Neu-meyer, Quellentexte zur Architekturtheorie, München 2002, S. 212 ff.
Friedrich Wilhelm Josef von Schelling, Über das Verhältnis der bildenden Künste zu der Natur, Hamburg 1983
Fritz Neumeyer, Der Klang der Steine, Nietzsches Architekturen, Berlin 2001
Fritz Neumeyer, Mies van der Rohe, Das kunstlose Wort. Gedanken zur Baukunst, Berlin 1986
Bruno Taut, Der Weltbaumeister, Architektur-Schauspiel für Symphonische Musik, neu hrsg. Und mit einem Nachwort zur Neuausgabe von Manfred Speidel, Berlin 1999
Friedrich Nietzsche, Also sprach Zarathustra, München 1999
Winfried Nerdinger, Bruno Taut 1880–1938, Architekt zwischen Tradition und Avant-garde, Stuttgart 2001
Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, 1922
Neuer Pragmatismus in der Architektur, Arch+, 156, 2001
Roger Paden, Mysticism and Architecture: Wittgenstein and the meanings of the Pal-ais Stonborough. Plymouth: Lexington, 2007.
Martin Heidegger, Bauen Wohnen Denken (1951), in: Gesamtausgabe Bd. 7, Vorträ-ge und. Aufsätze, Frankfurt: Vittorio Klostermann, 2000
Peter Eisenmann, Postfunktionalismus, 1976, in: Fritz Neumeyer, Quellentexte zur Architekturtheorie, München 2002, S. 524 ff.
Paul Valery, Eupalinos oder Der Architekt, 1923
Two preparatory meetings in Munich will try to bridge the gap between the disci-plines. During the morning sessions at VIU on San Servolo we shall discuss impor-tant issues concerning the relationship between architecture and philosophy. The discussions will follow short presentations by the students (see the texts below). The theoretical approach will be followed by practical exercises in the afternoon including excursions to various places and buildings in Venice, which may allow an application of the results of the discussions. Small groups of students will deal, e.g., with the connection and division that is embodied in the Venician landscape and express their ideas in sketches and models.
We would like to document the seminar in a print version of these sketches and of the seminar papers.
Literature
Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Das architektonische Lehrbuch, 1804-1835, in: Fritz Neu-meyer, Quellentexte zur Architekturtheorie, München 2002, S. 212 ff.
Friedrich Wilhelm Josef von Schelling, Über das Verhältnis der bildenden Künste zu der Natur, Hamburg 1983
Fritz Neumeyer, Der Klang der Steine, Nietzsches Architekturen, Berlin 2001
Fritz Neumeyer, Mies van der Rohe, Das kunstlose Wort. Gedanken zur Baukunst, Berlin 1986
Bruno Taut, Der Weltbaumeister, Architektur-Schauspiel für Symphonische Musik, neu hrsg. Und mit einem Nachwort zur Neuausgabe von Manfred Speidel, Berlin 1999
Friedrich Nietzsche, Also sprach Zarathustra, München 1999
Winfried Nerdinger, Bruno Taut 1880–1938, Architekt zwischen Tradition und Avant-garde, Stuttgart 2001
Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, 1922
Neuer Pragmatismus in der Architektur, Arch+, 156, 2001
Roger Paden, Mysticism and Architecture: Wittgenstein and the meanings of the Pal-ais Stonborough. Plymouth: Lexington, 2007.
Martin Heidegger, Bauen Wohnen Denken (1951), in: Gesamtausgabe Bd. 7, Vorträ-ge und. Aufsätze, Frankfurt: Vittorio Klostermann, 2000
Peter Eisenmann, Postfunktionalismus, 1976, in: Fritz Neumeyer, Quellentexte zur Architekturtheorie, München 2002, S. 524 ff.
Paul Valery, Eupalinos oder Der Architekt, 1923
