Levelling the “Dialect of Architectural Signs”
The Case od the Built Environment of the Sudetes
Abstract
The aim of the article is to show the current changes in attitudes in the architectural design of buildings located in a mountain environment with outstanding landscape values. These changes are a derivative of the departure from traditional aesthetics and replacing it with the aesthetics of happiness, as well as the increasingly popular environmental aesthetics. The considerations contained in the article are based on extensive literature on regional architecture and its role in shaping the broadly understood human living environment, as well as changes in the cultural landscape of the Sudetes. A comparative analysis of the literature on changes in the space of the Sudetes was adopted as the research method. It was extended to the observation of the latest architectural creations inspired by the cultural values of the subregion. This made it possible to determine the impact of traditional patterns – unique and closely related to a given place and its community – on the form of new architecture. Contemporary architecture in a regional context refers to tradition transmitted through specific architectural signs in a variety of ways, which is documented by buildings that can be considered as a quote, copy, imitation, inspiration or negation of traditional patterns. These diverse and so different attitudes are visible in new architectural realizations in the Sudetes, whose aesthetics seem to depart from traditional principles towards environmental aesthetics. In the light of the presented examples, it seems that ensuring spatial order in the Sudetes can bring not so much the duplication of traditional morphological signs, but the reference to the natural context perceived in the ecological dimension.
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