The summer school “Architecture & Philosophy” is an international summer school held in Croatia annually since 2016. The Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory has been participating in its organization along with the Center for Advanced Studies Southeast Europe and DeltaLab of the University of Rijeka, Technische Universität Berlin, Politecnico di Torino, and the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Belgrade.
The summer school program is aimed at providing a dialogue and strengthening the relationship between architecture and philosophy, by questioning the very boundaries between the two disciplines. Pursuing this goal, the summer school gathers philosophers of architecturally relevant themes and architects inclined to philosophical concepts. The idea of such a connection represents an attempt to destabilize the certainty of disciplinary differences by looking for the philosophical in architecture, as well as the architectural within the discipline of philosophy.
The issue of relations between architecture and philosophy is approached each year through specific topics that refer to the idea of conjunction of the two disciplines. Previous topics of the summer school were: Social Inequalities and Cities (2016, topic editor: Avner de Shalit), Between Intellectual and Sensory Reason: Towards an Epistemology of Architecture (2017, topic editor: Jörg Gleiter), Notation, Algorithm, Criticism: Towards a Critical Epistemology of Architecture (2018, topic editor: Jörg Gleiter), Around 1800/2000 – Aesthetics at the Threshold (2019, topic editor: Jörg Gleiter), and The Project of Theory (2022, topic editor: Jörg Gleiter). The past courses have been directed by Alessandro Armando (Politecnico di Torino), Petar Bojanić (University of Belgrade, University of Rijeka), Vladan Đokić (University of Belgrade), Jörg Gleiter (Technische Universität Berlin), Snježana Prijić-Samaržija (University of Rijeka), Avner de Shalit (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Snežana Vesnić (University of Belgrade), and Jonathan Wolff (University College London).
For more information on past Summer Schools:
5th Summer School Architecture & Philosophy – “The Project of Theory” (2022)