Aesthetics and architecture

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'Aesthetics and Architecture' places analytical philosophical aesthetics at the heart of thinking about, and looking at, architecture. It looks at classic and contemporary aesthetic and philosophical views of architecture.

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Full title :Aesthetics and architecture / Edward Winters.

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Publication Date:©2007.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Continuum
Place of Publication:London
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2007.

The Physical Object

Description:xii, 179 pages : : illustrations ; : 22 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780826486318, 0826486312, 0826486320, 9780826486325
oclc:ocm84997574
LC Classification:NA2500
Dewey Decimal:720.1

List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; PART I: THEORY OF ARCHITECTURE; 1. Classicism; 2. Modernism; 3. Functionalism; 4. Residual Problems: theory and practice; PART II: THEORY IN ARCHITECTURE; 5. Structuralist Accounts; 6. Post-structuralism; 7. Architecture and Semantics; 8. Politics and the Situationist International; 9. Architecture as a Public Art; PART III: ARCHITECTURE IN MIND; 10. The Mind and its Furniture; 11. Architecture, Mind and language; 12. Representation and Expression; 13. Architecture as a Form of Life; 14. Architectural Thinking; Bibliography.

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aesthetic value Architecture Architecture -- Aesthetics Architecture -- Esthétique ARCHITECTURE -- General architectuur Architectuur (algemeen) Architektur Architekturtheorie Arkitekturestetik Ästhetik Design esthetische waarde filosofie Filosofie (algemeen) Kennistheorie ontwerp Philosophy Philosophy (General) Theorie