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Architecture, Aesthetics, and the Predicaments of Theory

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Date: 5 Mar 2024 23:51:13
Architecture, Aesthetics, and the Predicaments of Theory

Amir H Ameri, "Architecture, Aesthetics, and the Predicaments of Theory "
English | ISBN: 1032008016 | 2023 | 232 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 3 MB

Architecture, Aesthetics, and the Predicaments of Theory offers a critical analysis of the methodological constants and shared critical strategies in the history of theoretical discourse on Western architecture. Central to these constants is the persistent role of aesthetics as a critical tool for the delimitation of architecture. This book analyzes the unceasing critical role aesthetics is given to play in the discourse of architecture.
The book offers a close and critical reading of three seminal texts from three different periods in the history of theoretical discourse on Western architecture―the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, and 19th-century Romanticism. The first text is Leone Battista Alberti's Ten Books on Architecture of 1452, the next Marc-Antoine Laugier’s An Essay on Architecture of 1753, and last, John Ruskin’s
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