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- Title
BROKEN SILHOUETTE OF A BUILDING: MYSTIQUE AND ETHICS.
- Authors
Petrušonis, Vytautas
- Abstract
The paper aims at revealing the role of a broken silhouette of a building or a group of such buildings representing a hierarchical compositional type in programming ethically significant content in the recipient's consciousness. A city filled with a great number of buildings with a broken silhouette is distinguished by a dominating hierarchical compositional type. In fact, such a situation is unwelcome and even dangerous from the point of view of social programming, because it forms destructive attitudes in human consciousness. However, when placed in a contextually appropriate space, buildings with a dynamic outline will perform their ‘mission’ of local compositional domination thus taking part in structuring a certain intrigue, forming ambiguity and together with organic elements expressing an idea of ‘collaboration’.
- Subjects
HISTORIC buildings; HISTORIC sites; CULTURAL property; HISTORIC structures; HISTORIC preservation; SOCIAL services
- Publication
Town Planning & Architecture, 2007, Vol 31, Issue 1, p39
- ISSN
1392-1630
- Publication type
Article