Philosophy of Architecture

by Christian Illies and Nicholas Ray

This beautifully compact book - the combined discourse of a moral philosopher and an architect - provides us with a parti pris for contemplating the often contradictory interplay of ethics and aesthetics in the generation and perception of architectural form. The authors jointly acknowledge the challenges poised by the conflict between raw instrumentality and the nuances of environmental culture. In so doing they identify six ethical categories which...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1786941694
• ISBN13: 9781786941695
• Release Date: July 2018
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 128 Pages