Architectural Environment as a Contemporary

Abstract

The article attempts to comprehend the meaning of the contemporaneity in the perspective of the current architectural environment. The spatial environment of a person is both the context and the object of the architect’s creativity, a source of interpretations, doubts and bold assumptions. The times when “modern” was perceived exclusively from the position of challenge and revolutionary innovation are over. It seems much more essential to interpret the stated definition in the totality of the leading trends, conceptual and aesthetic shifts in the approaches and language of architects, consonant with the time. The author of the article proposes a model of a new artistic dimension of architecture, representing the integration of key plastic motifs conditioned by the updated reality of architectural creativity: historical and cultural, social, environmental, media, performative. Special emphasis is placed on the philosophy of the oncoming movement of the architect and the artist, which today allows us to talk about the architectural environment as an actual art — sharp, frank, ambitious, revealing personal experiences and stories to its addressee. Such a confidential dialogue between the architect-artist and the user encourages a holistic understanding of the architectural-art environment as our “contemporary” and as an eternal “interlocutor” overcoming time.