THE AESTHETICS OF ARCHITECTURE: Philosophical Investigations

Description

The Aesthetics of Architecture: Philosophical Investigations into the Art of Building
By some of the top philosophers in the field of aesthetics as well as those in the architectural profession, essays in this book related architecture to other artforms such as photography. literature and painting.

• relates architecture to other artforms such as photography, literature and painting
• contains essays by some of the world’s top philosophers
• works with a diversity of architectural concepts and issues
• philosophical discussions are generated by professionally designed architectural projects as well as vernacular ones
• extends the bounds of architectural issues presently discussed by philosophers

CONTENTS

• David Goldblatt and Roger Paden: Introduction 
• Paul Guyer Kant: The Philosophy of Architecture
• Glenn Parsons: Fact and Function in Architectural Criticism
• Larry Shiner: On Aesthetics and Function in Architecture: The Case of the “Spectacle” Art Museum
• Andrew Ballantyne: Architecture, Life, and Habit
• Karsten Harries: Fantastic Architecture: Lessons of Laputa and the Unbearable Lightness of Our Architecture
• Edward Winters: A Dance to the Music of Architecture
• Travis T. Anderson: Complicating Heidegger and the Truth of Architecture
• Amir Ameri: Imaginary Placements: The Other Space of Cinema 
• Jennifer Burris: The Urban “Photogénie” of Architainment
• Filip Mattens: The Aesthetics of Space: Modern Architecture and Photography 
• Remei Capdevila: Werning Can Buildings Quote?
• Jale Nejdet Erzen: Reading Mosques: Meaning and Architecture in Islam
• Dinh Quoc Phuong and Derham Groves: The Aesthetics of Hanoi’s Architecture: Sense of Place through the Eyes of Local Painters

145 pages / 18 x 25,5 cm / English