Architecture as a textual phenomenon: Alexander Brodsky’s architectural practices of appropriation
Abstract
This paper analyzes architecture created through appropriating existing
materials while focusing on strategies of intertextuality. The paper argues that the
meaning of an architectural object does not derive from itself, or its poetic concepts,
but rather from its relationship with other architectural objects, other art works as
texts, cultural texts, and everyday practices. My aim is to show various theoretical
problems of the theory of architecture and art which, as a network of overlapping
texts of culture, surround the architectural production of Brodsky. Here I use different
and varied theoretical concepts, selecting two case studies by Brodsky (The Pavilion for
Vodka Ceremonies and Rotunda) upon which the paper is based as an interdiscursive
study.
Keywords:
Alexander Brodsky / appropriation / artworld / experimental architecture / ready- made / textSource:
Possible worlds of contemporary aesthetics: aesthetics between history, geography and media [Elektronski izvor] : proceedings / 21st International Congress of Aesthetics ICA 2019, Belgrade, 2019, 1698-1707Publisher:
- Belgrade : University of Belgrade - Faculty of Architecture
Note:
- Editors: Nataša Janković, Boško Drobnjak and Marko Nikolić
Institution/Community
Arhitektonski fakultetTY - CONF AU - Drobnjak, Boško PY - 2019 UR - https://raf.arh.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/2279 AB - This paper analyzes architecture created through appropriating existing materials while focusing on strategies of intertextuality. The paper argues that the meaning of an architectural object does not derive from itself, or its poetic concepts, but rather from its relationship with other architectural objects, other art works as texts, cultural texts, and everyday practices. My aim is to show various theoretical problems of the theory of architecture and art which, as a network of overlapping texts of culture, surround the architectural production of Brodsky. Here I use different and varied theoretical concepts, selecting two case studies by Brodsky (The Pavilion for Vodka Ceremonies and Rotunda) upon which the paper is based as an interdiscursive study. PB - Belgrade : University of Belgrade - Faculty of Architecture C3 - Possible worlds of contemporary aesthetics: aesthetics between history, geography and media [Elektronski izvor] : proceedings / 21st International Congress of Aesthetics ICA 2019, Belgrade T1 - Architecture as a textual phenomenon: Alexander Brodsky’s architectural practices of appropriation SP - 1698 EP - 1707 UR - https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_raf_2279 ER -
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Drobnjak, B.. (2019). Architecture as a textual phenomenon: Alexander Brodsky’s architectural practices of appropriation. in Possible worlds of contemporary aesthetics: aesthetics between history, geography and media [Elektronski izvor] : proceedings / 21st International Congress of Aesthetics ICA 2019, Belgrade Belgrade : University of Belgrade - Faculty of Architecture., 1698-1707. https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_raf_2279
Drobnjak B. Architecture as a textual phenomenon: Alexander Brodsky’s architectural practices of appropriation. in Possible worlds of contemporary aesthetics: aesthetics between history, geography and media [Elektronski izvor] : proceedings / 21st International Congress of Aesthetics ICA 2019, Belgrade. 2019;:1698-1707. https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_raf_2279 .
Drobnjak, Boško, "Architecture as a textual phenomenon: Alexander Brodsky’s architectural practices of appropriation" in Possible worlds of contemporary aesthetics: aesthetics between history, geography and media [Elektronski izvor] : proceedings / 21st International Congress of Aesthetics ICA 2019, Belgrade (2019):1698-1707, https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_raf_2279 .