Aesthetics And Architecture
Author(s): Winters Edward
Part of "The Continuum Aesthetics" series that looks at the aesthetic questions and issues raised by major art forms, this book places philosophical aesthetics at the heart of thinking about architecture. It considers how Classicism, Modernism, Structuralism, Post-structuralism and Situationism have influenced architectural aesthetics.
General Information
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- : Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
- : UNKNOWN
- : 0.249
- : 28 June 2007
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Other Specifications
- : Winters Edward
- : Paperback
- : 1
- : 111.85
- : 192
- : Illustrations
More About The Product
Edward Winters trained as a painter and has a PhD in Philosophy from UCL. He currently teaches at West Dean College and is a member of the Executive Committee of the British Society of Aesthetics.
List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; PART I: THEORY OF ARCHITECTURE; 1. Classicism; 2. Modernism; 3. Functionalism; 4. Residual Problems: theory and practice; PART II: THEORY IN ARCHITECTURE; 5. Structuralist Accounts; 6. Post-structuralism; 7. Architecture and Semantics; 8. Politics and the Situationist International; 9. Architecture as a Public Art; PART III: ARCHITECTURE IN MIND; 10. The Mind and its Furniture; 11. Architecture, Mind and language; 12. Representation and Expression; 13. Architecture as a Form of Life; 14. Architectural Thinking; Bibliography.
