Ethical Function of Architecture

Name: Ethical Function of Architecture
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ISBN: 9780262082525

ISBN-10: 0262082527

ISBN-13: 9780262082525

Edition: 1997

Authors: Karsten Harries

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Winner of the 8th Annual AIA International Architecture Book Award for Criticism 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 Giedionsup1;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, and get beyond the notion that its purpose is to produce endless variations of the decorated shed. In a series of cogent and balanced arguments, Harries…

Book details

List price: $55.00
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 12/1/1996
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 414
Size: 7.75" wide x 10.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 2.838
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Preface


Introduction: Postmodern Prelude


The Aesthetic Approach


The Problem of Decoration


The Promise of Ornament


The Decorated Shed


The Language Problem


Representation and Symbol


Representation and Re-Presentation


Tales of the Origin of Building


Building and Dwelling


Space and Place


The Voices of Space


Learning from Two Invisible Houses


Building, Dwelling, and Time


The Terror of Time and the Love of Geometry


Mold and Ruins


Death, Love, and Building


Architecture and Building


The Publicness of Architecture


Grave and Monument


The Representation of Life


Dreams of Utopia


Lessons of the Labyrinth


Conclusion: The Shape of Modernity and the Future of Architecture


Notes


Index