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Rethinking Aesthetics is the first book to bring together prominent
voices in the fields of architecture, philosophy, aesthetics, and
cognitive sciences to radically rethink the relationship between
body and design. These essays argue that aesthetic experiences can
be nurtured at any moment in everyday life, thanks to recent
discoveries by researchers in neuroscience, phenomenology,
somatics, and analytic philosophy of the mind, who have made the
correlations between aesthetic cognition, the human body, and
everyday life much clearer. The essays, by Yuriko Saito, Juhani
Pallasmaa, and Richard Shusterman, among others, range from an
integrated mind-body approach to chair design, to Zen Buddhist
notions of mindfulness, to theoretical accounts of existential
relationships with buildings, to present a full spectrum of
possible inquiries. By placing the body in the center of design,
Rethinking Aesthetics opens new directions for rethinking the
limits of both essentialism and skepticism.
Rethinking Aesthetics is the first book to bring together prominent
voices in the fields of architecture, philosophy, aesthetics, and
cognitive sciences to radically rethink the relationship between
body and design. These essays argue that aesthetic experiences can
be nurtured at any moment in everyday life, thanks to recent
discoveries by researchers in neuroscience, phenomenology,
somatics, and analytic philosophy of the mind, who have made the
correlations between aesthetic cognition, the human body, and
everyday life much clearer. The essays, by Yuriko Saito, Juhani
Pallasmaa, and Richard Shusterman, among others, range from an
integrated mind-body approach to chair design, to Zen Buddhist
notions of mindfulness, to theoretical accounts of existential
relationships with buildings, to present a full spectrum of
possible inquiries. By placing the body in the center of design,
Rethinking Aesthetics opens new directions for rethinking the
limits of both essentialism and skepticism.
Immediately on its publication in 1972, Learning from Las Vegas, by
Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, and Steven Izenour, was hailed
as a transformative work in the history and theory of architecture,
liberating those in architecture who were trying to find a way out
of the straitjacket of architectural orthodoxies. Resonating far
beyond the professional and institutional boundaries of the field,
the book contributed to a thorough rethinking of modernism and was
subsequently taken up as an early manifestation and progenitor of
postmodernism. Going beyond analyzing the original text, the essays
provide insights into the issues surrounding architecture, culture,
and philosophy that have been influenced by Learning from Las
Vegas. For the contributors, as for scholars in an array of fields,
the pioneering book is as relevant to architectural debates today
as it was when it was first published. Contributors: Ritu Bhatt,
Karsten Harries, Jean-Claude Lebensztejn, John McMorrough,
Katherine Smith, Dell Upton, Nigel Whitely.
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