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ANTHROPOLOGY ART ARCHITECTURE

Faculty: Prof. Dr Jan Brouwer

WORKSHOP SUMMARY

Abstract

This six-day workshop of Anthropology has specially been designed for students of Architecture. Its objectives are (1) To learn to be visual; (2) To be able to relate art and architecture historically and culturally, (3) To identify art, craft, architecture and kitsch; and (4) To understand means and meaning in art and architecture. The workshop provides basic anthropological tools relevant for the understanding of art and architecture as well as a few tools to critically analyse design composition.

The anthropological tool

The tools that are provided will be applied to the art and architectural legacies of the Indian and European past, to so-called ‘primitive art’ of non-Western and non-Indian cultures and to modern and postmodern artistic expressions. Discussing the cultural dimension of art and architecture considers the sacred and the profane, perspective, patronage, and material from the vantage point of a culture’s view on mortality. In addition, houses will be considered in the context of household, family and the construction of history. Furthermore, built forms and interiors will be placed in the light of society and sociality. The difference between the modern and the postmodern will be discussed with the help of urban landscape, indigenous town plans and town planning.

Five themes

Five themes run through the entire workshop: a. the relationship between the material, the mental and the social; b. culturally constituted concepts of time and space; c. aesthetics and ethics; d. views, perceptions and design; e. settlement, mobility and artistic expressions.

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