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Ugliness and Judgment - On Architecture in the Public Eye

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Zusatztext "To call out ugliness, then, is a call to arms. While beauty basks lazily and uselessly in its own perfection, ugliness spurs us into action." ---Igor Toronyi-Lalic, The Spectator Informationen zum Autor Timothy Hyde is associate professor in the history and theory of architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the author of Constitutional Modernism: Architecture and Civil Society in Cuba, 1933–1959 . He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Twitter @hyde_timothy Klappentext When buildings are deemed ugly, what are the consequences? In Ugliness and Judgment, Timothy Hyde considers the role of aesthetic judgment--and its concern for ugliness--in architectural debates and their resulting social effects across three centuries of British architectural history. From eighteenth-century ideas about Stonehenge to Prince Charles's opinions about the National Gallery, Hyde uncovers a new story of aesthetic judgment, where arguments about architectural ugliness do not pertain solely to buildings or assessments of style, but intrude into other spheres of civil society. Hyde explores how accidental and willful conditions of ugliness--including the gothic revival Houses of Parliament, the brutalist concrete of the South Bank, and the historicist novelty of Number One Poultry--have been debated in parliamentary committees, courtrooms, and public inquiries. He recounts how architects such as Christopher Wren, John Soane, James Stirling, and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe have been summoned by tribunals of aesthetic judgment. With his novel scrutiny of lawsuits for libel, changing paradigms of nuisance law, and conventions of monarchical privilege, he shows how aesthetic judgments have become entangled in wider assessments of art, science, religion, political economy, and the state.A fascinating examination of how architecture shapes larger social debates about beauty and ugliness. Zusammenfassung A novel interpretation of architecture, ugliness, and the social consequences of aesthetic judgmentWhen buildings are deemed ugly, what are the consequences? In Ugliness and Judgment, Timothy Hyde considers the role of aesthetic judgment-and its concern for ugliness-in architectural debates and their resulting social effects across three centur...

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Authors Timothy Hyde
Publisher Princeton University Press
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 30.04.2019
 
EAN 9780691179162
ISBN 978-0-691-17916-2
No. of pages 232
Dimensions 146 mm x 223 mm x 24 mm
Subjects Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture

European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, LAW / Legal History, PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics, ARCHITECTURE / History / General, ARCHITECTURE / Criticism, British & Irish history, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Legal History, Philosophy: aesthetics, History of Architecture, Theory of architecture

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