Mateja Kurir
https://doi.org/10.60152/o0lgiufw
Abstract: The question of honesty in architecture is essential for the field for several reasons. Honesty as a concept has been traditionally understood within the realm of the truth as such in architecture: to be honest meant to be able to express the truth in architecture, according to one of the most established theories, presented by John Ruskin. The aim of this paper is to approach honesty from a different standpoint, coming out from 2 different positions: the first comes out of philosophy, the other from architectural theory. The thesis, presented in the paper dealing with a new understanding of honesty in architecture, is as follow: whenever a broad discussion about honesty in architecture has been posed, a significant break with the past in architecture has been initiated. I would like to claim that these changes were not just a matter of material honesty in architecture, which is a widely accepted argument, but that when a significant rapture appeared in architecture, this was predominantly a reflection of societal changes. Architecture changed significantly when society changed: it reflected those systematic changes within society. In the paper, the period of the Renaissance, Neoclassicism, Modernism and Contemporaneity within architecture will be taken into consideration to discuss the topic of honesty in architecture.
Keywords: honesty, history, material, philosophy, break, environmental crisis
How to cite this Paper (Harvard referencing style):
Kurir, M. (2023) ‘On Honesty in Architecture: A Historical versus a Material Approach’, in R. Bogdanović (ed.) On Architecture — Challenges in Design, Proceedings. Belgrade, Serbia: STRAND, pp. 210-214.
On Architecture (2023) Conference Proceedings, pp. 210-214.
See publication On Architecture (2023) Conference Proceedings