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Paperback The Ethical Function of Architecture Book

ISBN: 026258171X

ISBN13: 9780262581714

The Ethical Function of Architecture

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Can architecture help us find our place and way in today's complex world? Can it return individuals to a whole, to a world, to a community? Developing Giedion's claim that contemporary architecture's main task is to interpret a way of life valid for our time, philosopher Karsten Harries answers that architecture should serve a common ethos. But if architecture is to meet that task, it first has to free itself from the dominant formalist approach,...

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