Institute of Architecture, Urban & Spatial Planning of Serbia
Doi
Abstract
On a broader scale, the aim of this paper is to examine theoretically the
effects a cultural context has on the aesthetic experience of images existing
in perceived reality. Minimalism in architecture, as direct subject of
research, is a field of particularities in which we observe functioning of
this correlation. Through the experiment with the similarity phenomenon, the
paper follows specific manifestations of general formal principles and
variability of meaning of minimalism in architecture in limited areas of
cultural backgrounds of Serbia and Japan. The goal of the comparative
analysis of the examples presented is to indicate the conditions that may
lead to a possibly different aesthetic experience in two different cultural
contexts. Attribution of different meanings to similar formal visual language
of architecture raises questions concerning the system of values, which
produces these meanings in their cultural and historical perspectives. The
establishment of values can also be affected by preconceptions resulting from
association of perceived similarities. Are the preconceptions in aesthetic
reception of architecture conditionally affected by pragmatic needs, symbolic
archetypes, cultural metaphors based on tradition or ideologically
constructed dogmas? Confronting philosophical postulates of the Western and
Eastern traditions with the transculturality theory of Wolfgang Welsch, the
answers may become more available
