RESEARCH PAPER
Searching for Genius loci
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Wydział Architektury/Instytut Architektury i Planowania Przestrzennego
Zakład Urbanistyki, Politechnika Poznańska, Polska
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Wydział Architektury / Instytut Architektury i Planowania Przestrzennego / Zakład Urbanistyki, Politechnika Poznańska, Polska
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Wydział Architektury, Politechnika Poznańska, Polska
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Wydział Rolnictwa, Ogrodnictwa i Biotechnologii / Katedra Terenów Zieleni i Architektury Krajobrazu, Uniwersytet Przyrodniczy w Poznaniu, Polska
Submission date: 2025-07-07
Final revision date: 2025-09-15
Acceptance date: 2025-12-17
Publication date: 2025-12-17
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Mieczysław Kozaczko
Wydział Architektury/Instytut Architektury i Planowania Przestrzennego
Zakład Urbanistyki, Politechnika Poznańska, Polska
Architektura, Urbanistyka, Architektura Wnętrz 2025;(24)
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The article discusses research conducted since 2019 by the Club [PHI]. The assumptions of the research method result from aesthetic evolutionism and concern the atavism inherent in the mecha-nism of evaluating the perceived form. The existential challenges, repeated for many generations of homo sapiens, have improved the human eye. Our ancestors, encountering an unknown form, espe-cially a living one, had to guess the potential effect of the encounter. In critical for survival situations, it was crucial to read both the potency and intentions of the encountered individual. The assessment of each appearing object had to be made immediately, from a distance that still allowed escape if the intentions of the observed individual turned out to be hostile. It is to this that the anatomy of the human eye has adapted in the course of evolution, creating our field of vision as a system of zones. Each zone simultaneously isolates the relevant fragments of the observed form, automatically com-bined by the interpreting brain into a meaningful whole. This subconscious mechanism of the de-composition of form on the retina allows us to read what the genius loci implanted in space tells us.