Colored glass in the form of stained-glass windows has been used to decorate buildings for over a thousand years. Due to various late-twentieth-century technological achievements, this material allows for a broad spectrum of design solutions. Glass can be used both in contemporary and historical buildings. This paper presents an analysis of the work of Tomasz Urbanowicz, an artist who works with glass, and its objective is to present not only the body of work of this artist but also the means of using colored glass in creating new values in architecture. The work is based on a study of the literature that covers the contemporary application of colored glass, on-site analysis of projects, and a series of interviews with the artist before, during, and after project completion, as well as the authors’ personal experience in the matter. One of the main research methods used was an analysis of the artist’s stance, as to him, the very process of pursuing creative inspiration is a fundamental procedure. Glassworks by Urbanowicz were displayed at the EXPO 2000 in Hanover (Germany), the EXPO 2005 in Aichi (Japan), and the EXPO 2008 in Saragossa (Spain). The United Earth glass sphere has been decorating the agora of the European Parliament building in Strasbourg (France) since 2004. In the paper, the artist’s projects are presented in two groups: The first includes solutions that employ monochromatic color schemes, whereas in the second, color has been used to create a strong contrast. The analysis presented includes interventions in historical buildings under heritage conservation, but also compositions from architectural glass in newly built buildings and that reference place-based history. Both the initial vision and the final effect of the glass architectural compositions are site-specific. The analysis of these differences and how the artist works allowed us to formulate a scheme of how he operates. Urbanowicz’s glass interventions affect the quality of the spaces they create and highlight their existing or expected features. The influence of the works can either play a primary and dominant role in relation with the surrounding space or be a secondary and delicate addition. Applied color may have different functions, from highlighting specific aspects of a building to introducing symbolic or direct reference. In many projects, color works as a source of a building interior’s atmosphere. The artistic interventions in historic spaces emphasize their features without disrupting pre-existing authenticity, whereas contemporary projects with no historic reference offer a wide variety of color applications that focus on the function and form of architecture, landscape, or surroundings.

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Tomasz Urbanowicz 选择的艺术玻璃组合中的颜色作为干预历史建筑和当代建筑的元素

一千多年来，彩色玻璃以彩色玻璃窗的形式被用来装饰建筑物。由于二十世纪后期的各种技术成就，这种材料允许广泛的设计解决方案。玻璃可用于现代和历史建筑。本文对使用玻璃的艺术家 Tomasz Urbanowicz 的作品进行了分析，其目的不仅在于展示这位艺术家的作品主体，还在于展示使用彩色玻璃创造建筑新价值的方式。该作品基于对当代彩色玻璃应用的文献研究、项目的现场分析、项目完成前、中、后对艺术家的一系列采访，以及作者的个人经历。在这件事上的经验。主要的研究方法之一是分析艺术家的立场，对他来说，追求创作灵感的过程本身就是一个基本的过程。Urbanowicz 的玻璃制品曾在 2000 年汉诺威世博会（德国）、2005 年爱知世博会（日本）和 2008 年萨拉戈萨世博会（西班牙）上展出。自 2004 年以来，United Earth 玻璃球一直在装饰斯特拉斯堡（法国）欧洲议会大厦的广场。在论文中，艺术家的项目分为两组：第一组包括采用单色配色方案的解决方案，而第二组则是, 颜色已被用来创造强烈的对比。所提出的分析包括对受遗产保护的历史建筑的干预，还有来自新建建筑中的建筑玻璃的组合物，以及基于地方的历史。玻璃建筑组合的初始视觉和最终效果都是特定于场地的。对这些差异以及艺术家如何工作的分析使我们能够制定出他如何运作的方案。Urbanowicz 的玻璃干预影响了他们创造的空间的质量，并突出了他们现有的或预期的特征。作品的影响可以在与周围空间的关系中发挥主要和主导作用，也可以是次要和微妙的补充。应用的颜色可能具有不同的功能，从突出建筑物的特定方面到引入象征性或直接参考。在许多项目中，色彩是建筑内部氛围的来源。