„Parki jutra” – idea parku w projektach architektów nowoczesności

• Authors: Ireneusz Gielata

Title variants

EN

“Parks of Tomorrow” – the Idea of Park in the Projects of the Architects of Modernity

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The article discusses the transformations of the idea of park in modernity. In the Age of Enlightenment Europe replaced the white of medieval cathedrals with the green of parks. A man, like Candide from Voltaire’s satire, started to “cultivate his garden,” changing private parks in public spaces. As a consequence of that process the idea of park as a place where you could experience beauty and pleasure completely “vanished”. Urban green spaces started to be determined by an efficacy parameter – which can be witnessed in Le Corbusier’s or Ebenezer Howard’s projects – thus opening the way for transforming former landscape parks into modern places of consumption: commercial parks and amusement parks.

Keywords

PL

park; Voltaire; Candide; modernity; consumption

EN

park; Voltaire; Candide; modernity; consumption

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
• Journal: Śląskie Studia Polonistyczne
• Year: 2018
• Volume: 11
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 55-69

Dates

published

2018-06-29

Contributors

author

Ireneusz Gielata