"De l´architecture sauvage": Asger Jorns Kritik und Konzept der Modernen Architektur

"De l´architecture sauvage": Asger Jorns Kritik und Konzept der Modernen Architektur

Baumeister, R.

Bollerey, F. (promotor)

Architecture

History

2009-12-14

Asger Jorn is a well known artist, especially his activities within the CoBrA group, Bauhaus Imaginiste and the International Situationist, after WWII contributed greatly to his international success. Besides his paintings, prints, ceramics and sculptures he produced a remarkable amount of theoretical work. In his early years, he repeatedly wrote on architecture and his ideas and concepts are still relevant for the contemporary discourse in architecture. Other than his artistic oeuvre, his theories received much less attention from scholars of architecture and art history, or philosophy. The overall goal of this research is, to expose this rather unknown part of the artist´s work, by highlighting his theoretical positions in architecture between the late 1930s and mid 1950s. Subsequently his opinions and motivations will be situated within the theoretical debate of his time and also be linked to some built architectures, which influenced and formed his conception of architecture and urbanism. Jorn´s position regarding the relationship between architecture and art on the one hand shows very well a harsh critique on modern architecture, but on the other hand it embraces both the options and the difficulty that derive from it. By developing the concept of an “Architecture Sauvage”, Jorn tries to lay out perspectives as to how Modern architecture can contribute to create the adequate environment for the everyday life of human beings, which even for contemporary architects today are remarkebly important.

architecture
art
cultural studies
aesthetic theory

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2010-01-24

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doctoral thesis

(c) 2009 Baumeister, R.