Dr. Mateja Kurir (1978) is a philosopher and publicist from Slovenia, mainly focusing on the question of modernistic architecture in philosophy. She finished her PhD "Architecture in philosophy; the reflection of architecture as a contemporary art form in the hermeneutics and structuralism of the twentieth century" in 2014 at the Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana (Slovenia). She published scientific and other articles related to the topic of the understanding of architecture in philosophy, concerning mainly with the theme of das Unheimliche.
Mateja Kurir was a Visiting Scholar at the Department of Architectu…
Dr. Mateja Kurir (1978) is a philosopher and publicist from Slovenia, mainly focusing on the question of modernistic architecture in philosophy. She finished her PhD "Architecture in philosophy; the reflection of architecture as a contemporary art form in the hermeneutics and structuralism of the twentieth century" in 2014 at the Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana (Slovenia). She published scientific and other articles related to the topic of the understanding of architecture in philosophy, concerning mainly with the theme of das Unheimliche.
Mateja Kurir was a Visiting Scholar at the Department of Architecture of the University of Leuven (Belgium). She collaborated at the conference Philosophy and architecture with the paper “The question of home (das Heim) in Heidegger’s philosophy” in Lisbon in 2015. She gave several lectures on modernistic architecture at distinguished institutions in Slovenia (Museum of Architecture and Design, Faculty of Arts, Museum of Contemporary Arts) and on the use of public space abroad (Mexico City, Vienna).
