Marián Zervan: On the Methodological Problems of Interpreting Architecture in the 20th Century
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Marian Zervan (Faculty of Arts, Trnava University / Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava)
On Methodological Problems of Architectural Interpretation in the 20th Century
on Wednesday, January 30, 2019, at 4:30 PM
Institute of Art History, Czech Academy of Sciences
Husova 4, Prague 1
1st floor, room 117
The lecture is based on the upcoming publication "Methods of Interpreting Architectural Works." It focuses on the issues before and after the interpretive turn in the field of architecture. It does not analyze unique interpretive authors' procedures but only those that aim to offer a method of interpretation. Using several examples, it discusses the arguments of proponents and opponents of interpretation. Subsequently, it differentiates the camp of proponents into autonomists and heteronomists and within the ranks of autonomists and heteronomists distinguishes advocates of methods developed by architects and art historians on one hand and representatives utilizing methods from other scientific disciplines on the other. It considers three key methodological areas of issues in architectural interpretation: 1/ the relationship between the unique and the general (for example, between a unique work and a generalized method), 2/ searching for ways to connect the positions of autonomists and heteronomists (such as formalists and semioticians), 3/ how to address the issue of criteria for interpreting architecture based on points 1/ and 2/. It will present some solutions to these problems, including an attempt at its own model of interpretation.
Marian Zervan is an art and architecture historian and theorist. Since graduating from the Faculty of Arts at Comenius University in Bratislava, he has worked at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava. In 1991, he taught at the Department of Theory of Architecture, Art, and Design at the Faculty of Architecture, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, which he headed from 1993 to 2003. From 2006 to 2018, he was the head of the Department of History and Theory of Fine Arts at the Faculty of Arts, Trnava University, where he still works today. Since 2018, he is also the main guarantor of the department of history and theory of fine arts and architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava. He obtained a PhD in architecture focusing on architectural theory. He has habilitated in both architecture and the field of history and theory of art. Since 2010, he has been a professor in the field of history and theory of fine arts. He deals with sacred iconography as well as theoretical and methodological questions of fine arts and architecture, as well as methods of interpreting architecture.
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Marian Zervan (Faculty of Arts, Trnava University / Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava)
On Methodological Problems of Architectural Interpretation in the 20th Century
on Wednesday, January 30, 2019, at 4:30 PM
Institute of Art History, Czech Academy of Sciences
Husova 4, Prague 1
1st floor, room 117
The lecture is based on the upcoming publication "Methods of Interpreting Architectural Works." It focuses on the issues before and after the interpretive turn in the field of architecture. It does not analyze unique interpretive authors' procedures but only those that aim to offer a method of interpretation. Using several examples, it discusses the arguments of proponents and opponents of interpretation. Subsequently, it differentiates the camp of proponents into autonomists and heteronomists and within the ranks of autonomists and heteronomists distinguishes advocates of methods developed by architects and art historians on one hand and representatives utilizing methods from other scientific disciplines on the other. It considers three key methodological areas of issues in architectural interpretation: 1/ the relationship between the unique and the general (for example, between a unique work and a generalized method), 2/ searching for ways to connect the positions of autonomists and heteronomists (such as formalists and semioticians), 3/ how to address the issue of criteria for interpreting architecture based on points 1/ and 2/. It will present some solutions to these problems, including an attempt at its own model of interpretation.
Marian Zervan is an art and architecture historian and theorist. Since graduating from the Faculty of Arts at Comenius University in Bratislava, he has worked at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava. In 1991, he taught at the Department of Theory of Architecture, Art, and Design at the Faculty of Architecture, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, which he headed from 1993 to 2003. From 2006 to 2018, he was the head of the Department of History and Theory of Fine Arts at the Faculty of Arts, Trnava University, where he still works today. Since 2018, he is also the main guarantor of the department of history and theory of fine arts and architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava. He obtained a PhD in architecture focusing on architectural theory. He has habilitated in both architecture and the field of history and theory of art. Since 2010, he has been a professor in the field of history and theory of fine arts. He deals with sacred iconography as well as theoretical and methodological questions of fine arts and architecture, as well as methods of interpreting architecture.
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