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,...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:026258171X
ISBN13:9780262581714
Release Date:July 1998
Publisher:MIT Press
Length:424 Pages
Weight:2.30 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 7.0" x 10.1"
Age Range:18 years and up
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
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Aesthetics Architecture Criticism History Humanities Philosophy Politics & Social Sciences ReferenceCustomer Reviews
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