Description: The Weltanschauung As an Ersatz Gestalt : Eine Happy-open-end-environmental-design-science-fiction-image-story, Paperback by Turnovsky, Jan; Guttmann, Eva (EDT); Kaiser, Gabriele (EDT); Mazanek, Claudia (EDT), ISBN 3038600008, ISBN-13 9783038600008, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Jan Turnovský (1942–95) was a Czechoslovakian architect. He was born and educated in Prague, where he studied at the Technical University and the Academy of Fine Arts 1959–1966. Following his diploma, he emigrated to Austria in 1966 and worked for various architectural firms in Vienna, obtaining the necessary Austrian certificates as an architect in 1970 and 1972. From 1975–95 worked as a research and teaching assistant at Technische Universität Wien’s Institute for Architecture and Design 1975–95. During his tenure, and as temporary head of the institute’s department of residential architecture in 1995, he proved to be an equally dedicated and unorthodox assistant and lecturer. His thinking and intellectual legacy has been influential for an entire generation of younger Austrian architects. Turnovský’s book The Poetics of a Wall Projection (AA Publications, 2009) demonstrates his vast knowledge in literature, philosophy, and architecture. Starting from a seemingly mundane geometric problem in Ludwig Wittgenstein’s unrealized design for Stonborough House in Vienna, he profoundly and at the same time lightheartedly explores architecture’s many layers of meaning. Turnovský’s thesis The Weltanschauung as an Ersatz Gestalt, which he penned in 1980 for his Master’s degree at the Architectural Association in London, has remained unpublished to this day. As in Poetics of a Wall Projection his style is amusing and full of irony without lacking any of the scholarship and learned criticism an academic paper requires. He focuses on a philosophy of “open systems” as proposed by Umberto Eco, which he applies to the architectural design process. He questions conventional thinking both critically and constructively and presents his strategy of reading architecture and its elements in new contexts. Turnovský relates the psychological term “gestalt” to the philosophical “weltanschauung”, both lacking a direct equivalent in English. A—collective, contemporary, etc.—“weltanschauung” always affects our perception of a “gestalt”, in this case a work of architecture. On the other hand, an individual “weltanschauung” allows a personalized view of a “gestalt” that differs from what its author had in mind. Turnovský critically reviews, and attempts to disenchant, three “magic formulas” that were widely used in architecture, during the 1970s in particular: numerical aesthetics, ideology (of any orientation), and semiology.
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Book Title: The Weltanschauung As an Ersatz Gestalt : Eine Happy-open-end-env
Number of Pages: 128 Pages
Publication Name: Weltanschauung As an Ersatz Gestalt
Language: English
Publisher: PARK Books
Item Height: 0.6 in
Publication Year: 2016
Subject: General, History / General
Item Weight: 23.5 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Architecture
Author: Jan Turnovsky
Item Length: 11 in
Item Width: 9 in
Format: Trade Paperback
