Philosopher Looks At Architecture

Argues that the fundamental goals of architecture remain valid despite constant changes in human activities, technologies, and styles.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. Good Construction, Functionality, and Aesthetic Appeal: From Vitruvius to the Eighteenth Century; 2. The Meaning of Beauty: From Kant to Semper; 3. Multiplicity of Meaning in Twentieth-Century Theories; 4. Words and Works: Modern Architecture and Traditional Values; 5. Looking Forward.

About the author

Paul Guyer is Jonathan Nelson Professor of Humanities and Philosophy at Brown University. He is the author of numerous books on Kant and aesthetics, including Knowledge, Reason, and Taste: Kant's Response to Hume (2008) and the three-volume A History of Modern Aesthetics (Cambridge, 2014).

Summary

In this book, Paul Guyer argues that the fundamental goals of architecture identified by the Roman architect Marcus Pollio Vitruvius in the first century BCE - good construction, functionality, and aesthetic appeal - remain valid despite constant changes in human activities, building materials and technologies, and artistic styles and cultures.

Product details

• Authors: Paul Guyer, Paul (Brown University Guyer, Guyer Paul
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2021
• EAN: 9781108820424
• ISBN: 978-1-108-82042-4
• No. of pages: 216
• Series: A Philosopher Looks At
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Architecture, History of Ideas, PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, Public buildings: civic, commercial, industrial, etc, Individual architects & architectural firms, Philosophy, ARCHITECTURE / Individual Architects & Firms / General, ARCHITECTURE / Buildings / Public, Commercial & Industrial, PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics, ARCHITECTURE / History / General, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Popular philosophy, Philosophy: aesthetics, Western philosophy from c 1800, History of Architecture, Individual architects and architectural firms, Architecture: public, commercial and industrial buildings