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DOI Artikel:Kiecko, Emilia: Międzynarodowa Wystawa Architektury Intencjonalnej Terra-1
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EMILIA KIECKO
INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION OF INTENTIONAL ARCHITECTURE TERRA-1
Summary
The paper discusses an International Exhibition of Intentional Architecture
Terra-1, held between September 14 and December 12, 1975 in the Museum of
Architecture in Wrocław. The main designer and organizer of the exhibition was
the Wrocław architect Stefan Muller. Its main idea, concealed under the title
term "intentionality," was to address the most important problems of modern
architecture, selected by the participants (architects, artists, scholars, and scientists)
and illustrated in different forms as drawings, cołlages, photos, texts, posters, etc.
Among 57 presentations prepared by artists from 14 different countries (mainly
of Europę, though some Japanese and U.S. architects were present as well), the
largest number addressed various problems related to architecture's futurę, sińce
when the exhibition was organized, the futurological trend was still quite popular.
Many presentations focused also on the relationships between architecture (human
civilization) and natural environment, and architecture and man. Due to the
continuing crisis of the paradigm of modernist architecture, which began in the
1960s, a considerable number of the "intentional" works approached the problem of
the architecfs profession and the limits of his/her competence.
On the list of participants one could find many names of outstanding Polish and
foreign architects and artists: Marian Bogusz, Włodzimierz Borowski, Jan
Chwałczyk, Oskar Hansen, Natalia LL, Jerzy Rosołowicz, Przemysław T. Szafer,
Hanna and Kazimierz Wejchert, Constantinos A. Doxiadis, Yona Friedman, the
"Superstudio" group, Arata Isozaki, Rem Koolhaas, Elia Zenghelis, Renzo Piano,
Richard Rogers, Aldo Loris Rossi, and Alberto Sartoris. That gave the organizers a
chance to tum the exhibition into a major international initiative, particularly as
regards theoretical debates, but unfortunately it proved a failure because of many
companion events connected to a congress of the International Association of Art
Critics (AICA), held in Poland at the same time. Besides, most of the important
participants were absent during panel discussions.
Inviting to Terra-1 a number of individuals who had little to do with
architecture or art (such as the sociologist Aleksander Wallis) resulted from a
tendency characteristic of Poland in the 1960s and 1970s to bring together artists
and academics (other relevant examples were the First Symposium of Artists and
Academics held in August 2-23 in Puławy, or International Meetings of Artists,
Scholars, and Art Theorists in Osieki, organized in 1963-1979). The connections of
Terra-1 with the initiatives in the field of art could indeed be far-reaching. The
Puławy Symposium was organized by Jerzy Ludwiński who had close contacts with
the whole group of the Wrocław conceptual artists, so that Stefan Muller, as Anda
Rottenberg claims, might have arranged Terra-1 and Terra-2 in 1981 as its
equivalents.
EMILIA KIECKO
INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION OF INTENTIONAL ARCHITECTURE TERRA-1
Summary
The paper discusses an International Exhibition of Intentional Architecture
Terra-1, held between September 14 and December 12, 1975 in the Museum of
Architecture in Wrocław. The main designer and organizer of the exhibition was
the Wrocław architect Stefan Muller. Its main idea, concealed under the title
term "intentionality," was to address the most important problems of modern
architecture, selected by the participants (architects, artists, scholars, and scientists)
and illustrated in different forms as drawings, cołlages, photos, texts, posters, etc.
Among 57 presentations prepared by artists from 14 different countries (mainly
of Europę, though some Japanese and U.S. architects were present as well), the
largest number addressed various problems related to architecture's futurę, sińce
when the exhibition was organized, the futurological trend was still quite popular.
Many presentations focused also on the relationships between architecture (human
civilization) and natural environment, and architecture and man. Due to the
continuing crisis of the paradigm of modernist architecture, which began in the
1960s, a considerable number of the "intentional" works approached the problem of
the architecfs profession and the limits of his/her competence.
On the list of participants one could find many names of outstanding Polish and
foreign architects and artists: Marian Bogusz, Włodzimierz Borowski, Jan
Chwałczyk, Oskar Hansen, Natalia LL, Jerzy Rosołowicz, Przemysław T. Szafer,
Hanna and Kazimierz Wejchert, Constantinos A. Doxiadis, Yona Friedman, the
"Superstudio" group, Arata Isozaki, Rem Koolhaas, Elia Zenghelis, Renzo Piano,
Richard Rogers, Aldo Loris Rossi, and Alberto Sartoris. That gave the organizers a
chance to tum the exhibition into a major international initiative, particularly as
regards theoretical debates, but unfortunately it proved a failure because of many
companion events connected to a congress of the International Association of Art
Critics (AICA), held in Poland at the same time. Besides, most of the important
participants were absent during panel discussions.
Inviting to Terra-1 a number of individuals who had little to do with
architecture or art (such as the sociologist Aleksander Wallis) resulted from a
tendency characteristic of Poland in the 1960s and 1970s to bring together artists
and academics (other relevant examples were the First Symposium of Artists and
Academics held in August 2-23 in Puławy, or International Meetings of Artists,
Scholars, and Art Theorists in Osieki, organized in 1963-1979). The connections of
Terra-1 with the initiatives in the field of art could indeed be far-reaching. The
Puławy Symposium was organized by Jerzy Ludwiński who had close contacts with
the whole group of the Wrocław conceptual artists, so that Stefan Muller, as Anda
Rottenberg claims, might have arranged Terra-1 and Terra-2 in 1981 as its
equivalents.