Positive beauty: essay on beauty of everydayness

Angelika Lasiewicz-Sych

doi:10.5277/arc190210

Abstract

Bearing in mind the human dimension of architecture, the nowadays experienced deficit in interest in architecture of life environment may be worrying. The role of architecture should not be limited to presentation and sale of spectacular images that may screen real problems of the human environment. On the contrary it should represent people’s life and aspirations and encourage them to dwell in public spaces together with other people. The paper presents some ethical issues in architecture resulting from globalization processes, from neglecting the human scale and importance of the variety of everyday life of public space in the city. It is argued that the convincing reason for beauty in architecture nowadays should be related to creating new, good and important experiences for daily users of architecture.