O filozofiji in umetnosti/On Philosophy and Art
Seminar at the Architectural Association, part of the MA in History and Critical Thinking in Architecture, Writing With series with Marina Lathouri & Guest "Power and Architecture"February 14, 2025, LondonPhoto by: Ioanna Diamanti More on the seminar: https://hct.aaschool.ac.uk/hct-phd-debates-writing-with-power-and-architecture-with-mateja-kurir/
Na konferenci Prostor možnosti, ki je potekala v parku Muzeja za arhitekturo in oblikovanje v organizaciji Centra za kreativnost 12. 6. 2025, sem sodelovala s predavanjem Vizija prostora prihodnosti. Vabljeni k ogledu ogledu posnetka predavanja ali branju celotnega besedila. *** Konferenca NEB: Prostor MožnostiSklop 3, Načrtovanje prihodnosti: razvojni potencial in vizija NEBMAO, 12. 6. 2025... Continue Reading →
Lecture "On Power in Architecture" at Norwich University of the Arts as part of the Studio Talks series, organized by Teresa Stoppani, Sarah De Villiers, Jason Wiggin, and George Themistokleous February 25, 2025, NorwichPhoto by: Jason Wiggin Seminar at Norwich University of the Arts – Architecture"Architecture, Forests, and the Environmental Crisis"February 26, 2025, Norwich More: https://www.instagram.com/norwichuni_architecture/p/DG0zLPAsIN0/?img_index=1
February 5, 2025, LondonSupported by: Riko, Igor Zabel Association for Culture and Theory, Ministry of Culture of SloveniaPhoto by: George Cocks More: https://www.aaschool.ac.uk/publicprogramme/whatson/on-power-in-architecture
From a Materialistic, Phenomenological, and Post-Structuralist Perspective Edited By Mateja Kurir Routledge, 2025 Architecture has always been a decisive manifestation of power. This volume represents an attempt to question and reflect on the relationship between power and architecture from three philosophical perspectives: materialistic, phenomenological and post-structuralist. This collection opens an interdisciplinary investigation that aims to... Continue Reading →
I am extremely proud the book Garden and Metaphor has been published by Birkhäuser in October 2023. In this book, landscape architects, sociologists, architects, artists, art historians, writers, poets and philosophers illuminate manifold aspects of the garden in the Anthropocene in several chapters. The beguiling images by the renowned photographer Anne Schwalbe create a narrative... Continue Reading →
Balatorium Meetup, 20 October 2023 Hello everyone and welcome on board the train to Lake Balaton. My aim today is to open our discussion on transitional spaces, while connecting it to the case of the biggest lake in Central Europe: Lake Balaton. It is a privilege to have this discussion on a train and I... Continue Reading →
ABSTRACTThis paper aims to argue, that the question of home (das Heim) is one of the crucial elementsof Martin Heidegger’s philosophy, which has been tackled by the German philosopherthroughout his life work in close connection to its opposition, namely the uncanny (dasUnheimliche). The paper discusses the different understandings of home in Heidegger’sphilosophy, starting from seminal... Continue Reading →
Pogovor o knjigi O oblasti v arhitekturi Proti etru spet ta dež
Piran Days of Architecture |Avditorij Portorož Slovenia, November 26th 2022 Today I won’t be speaking directly about my work, as I will be focusing on the theme of thisconference – honest architecture, or as I will rather address it - honesty in architecture - which is not an easy task for several reasons. Firstly,... Continue Reading →
Plečnikova medalja s področja arhitekturne teorije, kritike in strokovne publicistike 202 knjiga O OBLASTI V ARHITEKTURI Mateja Kurir Obrazložitev strokovne žirije: V uvodniku v knjigo O oblasti v arhitekturi avtorica in njena urednica Mateja Kurir zapiše, da je arhitektura od svojih začetkov ena od odločilnih manifestacij oblasti. Teza izpostavlja razmerje med arhitekturo in oblastjo, narekuje potrebo... Continue Reading →
Arhitektura je bila od vselej ena od odločilnih manifestacij oblasti. Zbornik O oblasti varhitekturi prinaša eseje in intervjuje, ki kritično pretresajo razmerja med arhitekturo inoblastjo iz treh filozofskih perspektiv (materializma, fenomenologije, poststrukturalizma).Prodorni filozofi, arhitekturni teoretiki in zgodovinarji v svojih prispevkih podajajorazmisleke o arhitekturi, oblasti in njunem preseku tudi na osnovi praktičnih arhitekturnihprimerov, s katerimi pretresajo... Continue Reading →
Knjiga Vrt in prispodoba prinaša raznovrstne poglede na vrt, ki segajo onkraj njegove samoumevne vsakdanjosti, in odpira vprašanje, kaj vrt je in kaj predstavlja. Odpira večplastni pomen vrta in raziskuje sodobnejše koncepte narave, tako v zasebnem kot v javnem življenju. Priznani krajinski arhitekti, arhitekti, umetnostni zgodovinarji, filozofi, sociologi, umetniki, pesniki in pisatelji so vrt umestili v kontekst aktualnih družbenih... Continue Reading →
Paradigme modernistične arhitekture Objavljeno v: ARHITEKTURA JE/NI UMETNOST, 2017 Današnjo arhitekturo določa korenita zareza, ki jo je v prostor prinesla modernistična arhitektura prve polovice 20. stoletja. Postulati te arhitekture so bili zasnovani na prelomu s tradicijo in na grajenju novih paradigem, ki jih lahko strnem v tri konceptualna jedra: tehnika, abstrakcija in transparenca. V tekstu... Continue Reading →
Published in: SAJ (Serbian Architectural Journal), 2018 Architecture within critical theory: with or without ideology? Architecture mainly dwells in philosophy as an ideological power. Almost every important philosopher of the 20th century wrote at least one essay concerning architecture and it does not come as a surprise, that most of them were dealing with ideology:... Continue Reading →
Objavljeno v: VRT IN PRISPODOBA, 2021. V tem poskusu premisleka o soodvisnosti med vrtom in užitkom bomo skušali prikazati, da je vrt večinoma prostor užitka, kjer je obenem na delu tudi užitek prostora. Pri tem preizkušanju pa ne gre toliko za razpiranje pomena užitka kot za trasiranje nians spremenjenih koncepcij pomena vrtov. Vrt je prostor... Continue Reading →
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