Radoslav Zuk

To create meaningful architecture is to create a part of the physical world -- a room, a building, a city -- which offers shelter, comfort, intellectual satisfaction and spiritual uplift. Special insights and synthesizing abilities are required to transform knowledge from a wide variety of fields into such a stimulating built environment.

In view of the complexity of this task and of the fragmentary nature of some recent theories and trends, maintaining a clear grasp of the spatial and tectonic substance of architecture emerges as a major challenge in teaching architecture today. A comprehensive conceptual structure of the discipline, which allows for a balanced inclusion of all relevant parameters, can go a long way to meeting this challenge.