Kant for Architects

Informationen zum Autor Diane Morgan is Lecturer in Cultural Studies at the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies, University of Leeds, UK. Klappentext Students of architecture will gain much from considering Kant, whose critical project consisted in testing and exploring the viability of ideas, so as to ascertain to what extent, and crucially, how, ideas can have a constructive effect on the whole world, and on us as active agents. Zusammenfassung Students of architecture will gain much from considering Kant, whose critical project consisted in testing and exploring the viability of ideas, so as to ascertain to what extent, and crucially, how, ideas can have a constructive effect on the whole world, and on us as active agents. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Why Kant Now? 1. Placing Kant: The City of Königsberg/ Kaliningrad. 2. The Critical Project and Architecture. 3. The Precarious Situation of Architecture and its Relation to Beauty. 4. From the Sublime to the Cosmopolitical: Building for an Infinitely Better Future. 5. Building Cosmopolitically?: "Fluid Geography" and "Total Thinking". Conclusion: Architects of the Future Unite! Further Reading. Bibliography. Index.

Product details

• Authors: Diane Morgan, Diane (University of Leeds Morgan
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.09.2017
• EAN: 9780415698689
• ISBN: 978-0-415-69868-9
• No. of pages: 146
• Series: Thinkers for Architects; Thinkers for Architects
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day