International Journal of Architecture, Arts and Applications

Special Issue

Cities and Arts 2032: The Challenge of architects and artists

  • Submission Deadline: 16 March 2022
  • Status: Submission Closed
  • Lead Guest Editor: Angelo Bugatti
About This Special Issue
Arts are quickly changing after pandemic, as testified by the successes of Nft: for example, the digital art work of the creative Beeple has been sold at 69.000.000,00 dollars. Also, we can observe in new projects and urban development the new habit of indifference at the contest, not only in the primary elements of the city but also in residential blocks, because the digital way, despite memory and tradition, becomes more powerful than the final result: beauty and adequacy.
The traditional unity of art and techne(as the works of Leonardo da Vinci) seems weak today, electronic way prevails.
Epigenetic glance about aesthetics is now different from some years ago, because the only use of digital tools leads to a virtual appreciation and spectacular expressions, forgetting traditional language of music, painting and architecture. Functions do not follow form, because form does not exist anymore, but only actions in no-time and no-where coordinates.
The aim of this issue could be the discover of basic elements of aesthetic of future, as a language shared and recognizable.
We have to look into situations and into the future, with the awareness that it is impossible to come back. Actually, the need of suitable space and the beauty of art are ineludible for next generation.
The articles of this issue should cover crosswise different disciplines, psychology, sociology and the entire artistic world.

Keywords:

  1. New Aesthetics
  2. Urban Architecture's Discipline
  3. Social Opinion on Arts
  4. Need of Beauty
  5. End of Tradition
  6. Language of Future
Lead Guest Editor
  • Angelo Bugatti

    College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University, Shanghai, China