Architecture on Other Space Bodies

Since 1989, the author has been lecturing at the postgraduate level, and since 2009 at the doctoral level at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Sarajevo, on the subject of “Architecture in Context”. The author set the goal of this topic as: “Developing and achieving a personal attitude (about architecture) and the ability to explain that attitude, both to oneself and to others”. The topic is situated at the very end of the academic study of architecture, and it is aimed at those young people who have decided to deal with architecture in the way of science, in its complex perception. Although postgraduate (and doctoral) students are, as a rule, the most successful students of basic architecture studies, they do not have a systematized image of architecture (as a complex and contradictory discipline), but more or less fragmented knowledge and skills. They base their approach to architectural design, most often, on copying appropriate solutions that they transfer from foreign magazines based on the principle of 'likeability' (and current 'architectural fashion'). Instructed by the experience of his own search for architecture (through his post-graduate and doctoral studies), the Author, just after being selected as an assistant professor at the Faculty of Architecture in Sarajevo (1989), proposed this topic for teaching at the post-graduate studies. The fundamental basis for understanding the complex issues of architecture in context is a good knowledge of the history of architecture, both on a global world level and in individual world regions. At the same time, architecture must be seen in the light (context) of the concrete natural environment, the history of science, technique and technology, all branches of art, as well as in the context of sociohistorical events. The fundamental basis for understanding the complex issues of architecture in context is a good knowledge of the individual architectural object, as a physical structure designed and built by man, which, with full designed expediency, should remain stable in a concrete natural environment, for a more or less long period of time. The author also proposed a completely new typology of architecture, derived from his own understanding of architecture as Architecturally Defined Space (ADS). In this way, architecture is completely equated with Man, that is, his generic nature, whose possibilities are endles