„ARCHITECTURE OF DESIRE”
FILIP FORTUNAT KURZEWSKI
ABOUT THE PUBLICATION:
This book is a summary of my search for the evidence showing that the contemporary process of creating a design continues to be impacted by traditional drawing. The book is an attempt to answer the question in what way, in an age of change resulting from the rapid advancement of technology, when new methods of work and implementation are introduced, traditional drawing and the contemporary design process are intertwined and sometimes they complement each other.
I discuss these issues by reference to my own creative pursuits, by explaining the concepts of these projects and describing the implementation process. The book guides the readers through the creative process of developing architectural design concepts both in a fictional fantasy world of paintings and in real projects. It combines many creative themes that reflect my inner desires and needs, which I express through drawing. The book, containing many paintings, drawings and designs, may prove useful both for architects and for visual artists. It is also addressed to the general public interested in art and architecture.
The title Architecture of Desire makes a reference to an intention that is a driving force for creating architectural structures in environments where everything is possible. Architecture contains aspirations, fascinations and desires; it is created instinctively out of a need which we subconsciously seek to satisfy.
FILIP FORTUNAT KURZEWSKI
Information about the planned release of the publication coming soon. Book is fully translated to English and prepared to print. I am looking for international publisher.
(…) „The main subject matter and focus of his considerations, his conclusions from the numerous writings he refers to and his own intuitive thoughts contained in his work, in my opinion pertain to the relationship between the inevitable material quality of architecture and the ingenious soul of the man who creates it. The material aspect in the latter boils down to their mind, their eyes and the drawing hand.” (…)
(…) „The treatise entitled Architecture of Desire comprises four parts, and from the very beginning we can sense the meaning of the word ‘desire’ used in the title. The first part, Kingdom Tales, unveils a magical world which the author would possibly like to be observed and felt by everyone. He describes it in the language of children’s fairy tales, offering a colourful image similar to the miniatures in the tales of the One Thousand and One Nights.
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This belief about the pictorial quality of the world and about the ability of drawings and paintings, which are, after all, flat and two-dimensional representations, to transport people into multidimensional space accompanies the author in all the subsequent chapters. The hand connected to the architect’s brain, mind and soul, if – as he writes – it ‘is released’, it acquires the ability of expression, which is not only involved in executing an architectural design, but also has the power to trigger the viewer’s imagination. Yes, the author is right when he claims that architectural knowledge and the perception of architecture to a large extent engage the inexpressible, ineffable domain of feelings and emotions, collective or intimate; commonly shared by people or accessible only to a select few. Although at present digital tools are increasingly used to ‘articulate’ architectural designs and these processes contain more and more automatic options generally facilitating the work, the manual skills of the architect working on a hand-drawn design are growing in price, both figuratively speaking and in real life. There are many works which recapitulate the importance of the phases when the manual sketch is created and then translated into the final design. This is something that Filip Kurzewski discusses by making reference to works by Peter Cook and Juhani Pallasmaa, architects who make drawings and recognise the importance of drawing for those designs that are created based on sketches.” (…)
(…) „In the context of drawings and paintings used as a tool in creating architectural designs, the ideas presented by Filip Kurzewski take the form of definite, elaborate and unusual graphic architectural visions.” (…)
(…) „The author in his book praises ingenuity, courage and inventiveness, and with his approach it is only natural. When one watches artistic works by Filip Kurzewski, one can say these are daydreams. They differ from the dreams we have in our sleep because ‘(…) they require us to be vigilant’. According to Arthur C. Danto, we can share our daydreams, and this is an advantage ‘over the dreams which come to us in our sleep’. I think, inspiration for daydreaming can come from anything. Looking at the drawings, which testify to the sincerity of the author’s assertion that they are created as a result of a search for the ‘meat of the drawing’ or ‘digging deeper and deeper’ into the matter of autonomously emerging forms, we get the irresistible impression that we are being invited for something akin to a walk across the celestial expanse while looking at star constellations. We cannot name all the stars, we cannot specify their distance from Earth or in fact comprehend what such distances might mean, yet we are pulled into the related myths, desires, dreams and legends. ” (…)