Ethical Function of Architecture

Name: Ethical Function of Architecture
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ISBN: 9780262581714

ISBN-10: 026258171X

ISBN-13: 9780262581714

Edition: 1998

Authors: Karsten Harries

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Karsten Harries asserts that architecture should serve a common ethos. Architecture, he claims, has a responsibility to community but its ethical component is inevitably political.

Book details

List price: $50.00
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 7/31/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 424
Size: 7.00" wide x 10.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 2.464
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