Programme and semantic transformations and analysis of houses of culture through cultural context influence

Abstract

Period of fifties is marked by the dispersion of the extremely large number of cultural institutions, which included the construction of typological group of buildings of culture - Houses of Culture. The importance of this typology of buildings represented a clear ideological and cultural influence, which as a result had the appearance of their significance, in architectural terms as well. Historically, the time frame that covers the period from their construction until today, testifies to the fact that Houses of Culture suffered various social, ideological and economic turmoil, which caused the transformation, both in terms of their meaning, and in terms of the name itself. The phenomena of programme and semantic transformation of Houses of Culture are explored in the paper through causal links of programme configuration, character of architectural space, Zeitgeist and the problems of contemporary cultural needs identified through phenomena such as openness, diversity and co-creation. The aim of this paper is to present the results of scientific project TR 36051 in general, the outcome of which was to draw attention to the issue of Houses of Culture in the Republic of Serbia and demonstrate their potential and paradigmatic model of values. In addition, the paper emphasizes question whether the need for redefining the meaning of Cultural Centers, in the context of today, sets them closer or further to the original meaning of the House of Culture.

Keywords

• House of Culture
• Cultural Center
• transformation
• programme
• meaning
• culture