作者/Writer：Archiol 2021.05.06
FOREWORD:
Architecture Writing Competition 2021, organized by ARCHIOL that explores the philosophy of Art and Architecture. The competition, ‘Art and Architecture’ was looking for essay submissions on the connection between Art and Architecture.
Scroll down to see our winners and top 20 shortlisted entries:
1st Prize Winner:
Name: Zeynep ÇOLAK
Title: THE PLASTIC LANGUAGE
All fields of arts are about expressing ideas, reflecting the artists’ creativity and creating a sensory experience for humans but Hegel defends that architecture is the mother of all arts and the reason behind this statement is the fact of architecture combines aesthetics, structural principles and mathematical precision in order to design. The harmony of textures, openings, planes, views, sounds, light and shadows in a good architecture is the evidence of no other field of art can draw the same amount of media in their creations even more an architect’s art is no valuable without an existence of human to experience it. Certainly architecture deserves Hegel’s statement but what he overlooks in this statement is that other fields also feed architectures abstract side, what I mean is that painting, sculpture and architecture interpenetrate during the creative process in fact their unity is the true form of the creative process.
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2nd Prize Winner:
Name: Akça Yılmaz
Title: Art and Architecture
The relation of art and architecture had been a long debate ever since both these fields appeared. They are considered to be sources, titles and interpretations of each other due to many variations of how and why they are used. Among an infinite number of questions, a few can be asked to discuss on these particularly critical fields. Firstly, the debate can go on about their definitions and similarities. Then it should be asked whether one of these subjects can cover the other; is architecture an art or does art act as a built complex after all?
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3rd Prize Winner:
Name: Brandon Koots
Title: Creative Freedom vs Functionality
I’ve previously said that art requires a fair amount of creativity. Though creating art is not just about materializing those creative ideas; it can also be functional. Art is also there to excite us, to fire up our imagination, to make us question how we live, how we interact with each other or how we do things. It’s there to stir up certain emotions and, in some cases, influence us towards taking specific actions. Alain De Botton, in his book “The Architecture of Happiness”, brings up the idea of a work of art as a “piece of propaganda”. It becomes a propaganda “whenever it uses its resources to direct us towards something, insofar as it attempts to enhance our sensitivity and our readiness to respond favourably to any end or idea.” There’s nothing bad with the fact that art has this power over us, as long as the idea it wants us to respond favourably to is a positive one.
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Honourable Mention:
Name: Kael Jakub
Title: Art in Architecture
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Honourable Mention:
Name: Mili Arora
Title: Purposeful Coalescence
Organiser’s details:
Name: Archiol Architecture Media Co.
E-mail: media@archiol.com
Website: www.archiol.com
Link to the announcement:
https://www.archiol.com/competition-results/art_and_architecture
