Miasto i kultura

The essay is devoted to the topic of architecture, which is interdisciplinary and addressed to a wide spectrum of recipients. It uses comparative analysis with its own commentary, which should be treated as a kind of manifesto. It also presents an urban image of the city and the perspectives of its life in relation to architecture. To live or dwell generally means to occupy a certain secure space that was purchased or leased out to satisfy one’s own needs. The scope of the individual needs or possibilities and their realisation is different. One takes advantage of the city as a set of life’s scenarios. The city, which is a distributor of all kinds of services and has a considerable potential to make use of, ensures comfortable life to the wealthy and facilitates survival to the poorest. Ensuring a place for oneself within the space of the city gives one a better chance for successful life than one’s own apartment, for it is culture that is responsible for the standard of one’s life. Architects strictly follow fine art, which alters everyday cultural life, thereby spreading culture precisely in cooperation with artists, taking advantage of their arsenal of common means of expression. In order to solve the design problems, e.g. the shape of architecture and urban tissue, one ought to permanently raise the level of everyday culture in an urban community.