Wewnętrzne drogi przez budynek – architektura i sfera emocji
Interior Pathways through the Building – Architecture and the Sphere of Emotions

Summary/Abstract: From the architectural tendencies and styles of the last decades new phenomena areemerging – buildings are not designed on a basis of formal transformations but ratheras intricate arrangements of interior pathways. Simultaneously, there is a noticeablepursuit towards achieving specific quality of architecture – where it does not remainneutral, exerts an impact on the observer and evokes emotions. The article exploresthe two above mentioned tendencies as mutually interrelated. It discusses their originsand reveals that while outlining the important characteristics of the contemporaryarchitecture they arise from early modern concepts. Today’s abysmal foyers wheredifferent species of ramps and trajectories let the observer go through space and experiencevarious environments are the continuation of the aesthetic and architecturalideas that evolved in the beginning of twentieth century. The currently ongoingprocess in which buildings are trespassing the characteristics of stable structuresand rather refer to imaginative geographies and landscapes is one of the immediateeffects of that continuation. While deeply imbedded in history – it also opens architectureto new spheres of explorations.

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