Aesthetics in architecture: Contemporary research issues

Abstract

The aim of this article is to provide an overview regarding research into aesthetic issues concerning architecture, urban design, and environment in general. For this purpose, the article focuses on the period of the last twelve years, as a period of intensive research into the named issues using new philosophical positions and values of interculturality. It seems that in that period research in aesthetics of architecture shifted into complex interdisciplinary fields developing new theoretical ideas enriching at the same time processes of creative practice.