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A novel interpretation of architecture, ugliness, and the social
consequences of aesthetic judgment When buildings are deemed ugly,
what are the consequences? In Ugliness and Judgment, Timothy Hyde
considers the role of aesthetic judgment-and its concern for
ugliness-in architectural debates and their resulting social
effects across three centuries of British architectural history.
From eighteenth-century ideas about Stonehenge to Prince Charles's
opinions about the National Gallery, Hyde uncovers a new story of
aesthetic judgment, where arguments about architectural ugliness do
not pertain solely to buildings or assessments of style, but
intrude into other spheres of civil society. Hyde explores how
accidental and willful conditions of ugliness-including the gothic
revival Houses of Parliament, the brutalist concrete of the South
Bank, and the historicist novelty of Number One Poultry-have been
debated in parliamentary committees, courtrooms, and public
inquiries. He recounts how architects such as Christopher Wren,
John Soane, James Stirling, and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe have been
summoned by tribunals of aesthetic judgment. With his novel
scrutiny of lawsuits for libel, changing paradigms of nuisance law,
and conventions of monarchical privilege, he shows how aesthetic
judgments have become entangled in wider assessments of art,
science, religion, political economy, and the state. Moving beyond
superficialities of taste in order to see how architectural
improprieties enable architecture to participate in social
transformations, Ugliness and Judgment sheds new light on the role
of aesthetic measurement in our world.
A novel interpretation of architecture, ugliness, and the social
consequences of aesthetic judgment When buildings are deemed ugly,
what are the consequences? In Ugliness and Judgment, Timothy Hyde
considers the role of aesthetic judgment-and its concern for
ugliness-in architectural debates and their resulting social
effects across three centuries of British architectural history.
From eighteenth-century ideas about Stonehenge to Prince Charles's
opinions about the National Gallery, Hyde uncovers a new story of
aesthetic judgment, where arguments about architectural ugliness do
not pertain solely to buildings or assessments of style, but
intrude into other spheres of civil society. Hyde explores how
accidental and willful conditions of ugliness-including the gothic
revival Houses of Parliament, the brutalist concrete of the South
Bank, and the historicist novelty of Number One Poultry-have been
debated in parliamentary committees, courtrooms, and public
inquiries. He recounts how architects such as Christopher Wren,
John Soane, James Stirling, and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe have been
summoned by tribunals of aesthetic judgment. With his novel
scrutiny of lawsuits for libel, changing paradigms of nuisance law,
and conventions of monarchical privilege, he shows how aesthetic
judgments have become entangled in wider assessments of art,
science, religion, political economy, and the state. Moving beyond
superficialities of taste in order to see how architectural
improprieties enable architecture to participate in social
transformations, Ugliness and Judgment sheds new light on the role
of aesthetic measurement in our world.
Comprehensive in coverage this textbook, written by academics from
leading institutions, discusses current developments and debates in
modern health economics from an international perspective. Economic
models are presented in detail, complemented by real-life
explanations and analysis, and discussions of the influence of such
theories on policymaking. Offering sound pedagogy and economic
rigor, Health Economics focuses on building intuition alongside
appropriate mathematical formality, translating technical language
into accessible economic narrative. Rather than shying away from
intellectual building blocks, students are introduced to technical
and theoretical foundations and encouraged to apply these to inform
empirical studies and wider policymaking. This book is designed for
advanced undergraduate courses in health economics and policy but
may also interest postgraduate students in economics, medicine and
health policy. Ideal length for one-semester courses.
This book examines the emergence and evolution of the discipline of
urban design as articulated through the work of Josep Lluis Sert
(1902-1983), one of its most influential practitioners. Sert was
noted for his city planning and urban development projects in
Europe, South America, and the United States, and the master plans
of his later career were significant for their integration of
natural landscape features into the urban building scheme. With
essays by leading scholars and a wide selection of archival
materials, illustrations, plans, and maps, this book provides a
timely look at the man who advocated the idea of "urban
consciousness" and an architecture that dealt with the total
environment--well before these concepts became commonplace.
Published in association with the Harvard University Graduate
School of Design
How does architecture make its appearance in civil society?
Constitutional Modernism pursues this challenging question by
exploring architecture, planning, and law as cultural forces.
Analyzing the complex entanglements between these disciplines in
the Cuban Republic, Timothy Hyde reveals how architects joined with
other professionals and intellectuals in efforts to establish a
stable civil society, from the promulgation of a new Cuban
Constitution in 1940 up until the Cuban Revolution. By arguing that
constitutionalism was elaborated through architectural principles
and practices as well as legal ones, Hyde offers a new view of
architectural modernism as a political and social instrument. He
contends that constitutionalism produced a decisive confluence of
law and architecture, a means for planning the future of Cuba. The
importance of architecture in this process is laid bare by Hyde’s
thorough scrutiny of a variety of textual, graphical, and physical
artifacts. He examines constitutional articles, exhibitions,
interviews, master plans, monuments, and other primary materials as
acts of design. Read from the perspective of architectural history,
Constitutional Modernism demonstrates how the modernist concepts
that developed as an international discourse before the Second
World War evolved through interactions with other disciplines into
a civil urbanism in Cuba. And read from the perspective of Cuban
history, the book explains how not only material products such as
buildings and monuments but also the immaterial methods of
architecture as a cultural practice produced ideas that had
consequential effects on the political circumstances of the nation.
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