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Architectural Aesthetics - Appreciating Architecture As An Art (Hardcover)
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Architectural Aesthetics - Appreciating Architecture As An Art (Hardcover)
Series: Bloomsbury Aesthetics
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The fine arts are traditionally seen to have intrinsic value: that
is, they are valuable in themselves. But this poses a problem for
architecture: its works are designed to serve our purposes, and
therefore it is classed as functional. Carving out a new space,
Edward Winters argues why architecture is a fine art and finds a
place for the fine art of architecture in the cultural environment
in which we structure our lives. Winters reconciles intrinsic
value, as a fine art, with extrinsic value, as shelter, security
and comfort, without collapsing into the modernist conception of
Functionalism. He draws on the Apollonian and the Dionysian to
resolve the apparent conflict between the two values: the former
requiring contemplative, detached reflection, the latter an
engaged, embodied entanglement with the festive mood inspired by
the immediate situation. Architecture, Winters claims, is to be
regarded as functional; but this functionality is subsumed under
the intrinsic aesthetic value of living well. Introducing the main
positions in the philosophy of architecture through the lens of the
timeless argument about what constitutes art, Winters lays out a
humanistic view of the medium and extends our understanding of
aesthetics and the everyday.
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