Conceptualisation of Architecture and Landscape Architecture as an Artistic Practice

The subject deals with architectural project and /or landscapearchitectural project as a tool of research and reflection.

The content of the subject serves as an addition to the individual work of doctoral candidates. A doctoral candidate develops a theme of his/her own project (theory supplemented with project work – a sketch, a pilot project, a test case of one’s own practice, as an introduction to one’s own doctoral work) through research of various examples.

The lectures deal with differing views and components of architecture and landscape architecture, by integrating critical theory, reflection and design in sociopolitical and cultural contexts. The subject is focused on recognition and definition of architectural or landscape architectural problem/theme, on its relation to other disciplines (technique, philosophy, art, science…), and the ways of their integration within the project work, reflected in its conceptualization and in the mode of presentation of the architectural thought.

Doctoral candidates study ways of sublimating architectural knowledge and thought into the production of the architectural work through articulation and response to all differing, external influences.

They study modes of presentation of architectural or landscape architectural projects – drawings, models etc., understanding and using visual language and its communication as an integral parts of the project.

The objective is for doctoral candidates to discover and know the most important movements, theories and particular projects that have – through critical discourse – contributed to the development of architecture and/or landscape architecture as discipline; to understand the fundamentals of architectural / landscape architectural design and their interdisciplinary aspects. They should also serve as reflective tools for candidate’s own work.

Doctoral candidates study both historical examples and examples of current architectural / landscape architectural production, in accordance with the objectives of their own research.