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"Why do some buildings make us feel happy or excited or tranquil? What is it in architecture that elicits pleasure? Grant Hildebrand asks these general questions in Origins of Architectural Pleasure, as well as more specific ones. To answer them, the author examines buildings and groups of buildingsfrom five continents and five millennia - that have retained their remarkable appeal or excitement. The book explores the reasons for such responses to the physical environment and relates some of our pleasure in architecture to elements in nature essential to survival, from the self-evident need for shelter to the aesthetic satisfaction of discovering order in complexly organized surroundings - or complexity in apparent order."--Jacket.

Architecture --- Art, Architecture & Applied Arts --- Environmental psychology --- Architectural aesthetics --- Aesthetics, Architectural --- Aesthetics --- Aesthetics. --- Psychological aspects. --- Psychological aspects --- Human factors --- Esthétique --- Aspect psychologique

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"Whatever 'ugliness' is, it remains a problematic category in architectural aesthetics - alternately vilified and appropriated, either to shock or to invert conventions of architecture. This book presents eighteen new essays which rethink ugliness in architecture - from brutalism to eclectic postmodern architectural productions - and together offer a diverse reappraisal of the history and theory of postmodern architecture and design. The essays address both broad theoretical questions on ugliness and postmodern aesthetics, as well as more specific analyses of significant architectural examples dating from the last decades of the twentieth century, addressing the relation between the aesthetic register of ugliness and aesthetic concepts such as brutalism, kitsch, the formless, ad hoc-ism, the monstrous, or the grotesque. The aim of this volume is not simply to document the history of a postmodern anti-aesthetic through case studies. Instead, it aims to shed light on an aesthetic problem that has been largely overlooked in the agenda of architectural theory, the question if and how ugliness can be of interest to architecture; or if and how architecture can make good use of ugliness"--

Architecture, Postmodern. --- Architecture --- Theory of architecture --- Aesthetics. --- Postmodernisme --- Esthétique architecturale --- Bofill, Ricardo --- Venturi, Robert, 1925-2018 --- Moore, Charles --- Architectural aesthetics --- Aesthetics, Architectural --- Aesthetics --- Postmodern architecture --- Architecture, Modern --- Postmodernism

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A vision of architecture that transcends concerns of form and function and finds the connections between the architect's wish to design a beautiful world and architecture's imperative to provide a better place for society. The forced polarity between form and function in considerations of architecture--opposing art to social interests, ethics to poetic expression--obscures the deep connections between ethical and poetical values in architectural tradition. Architecture has been, and must continue to be, writes Alberto Perez-Gomez, built upon love. Modernity has rightly rejected past architectural excesses, but, Perez-Gomez argues, the materialistic and technological alternatives it proposes do not answer satisfactorily the complex desire that defines humanity. True architecture is concerned with far more than fashionable form, affordable homes, and sustainable development; it responds to a desire for an eloquent place to dwell--one that lovingly provides a sense of order resonant with our dreams. In Built upon Love Perez-Gomez uncovers the relationship between love and architecture in order to find the points of contact between poetics and ethics--between the architect's wish to design a beautiful world and architecture's imperative to provide a better place for society. Eros, as first imagined by the early lyric poets of classical Greece, is the invisible force at the root of our capacity to create and comprehend the poetic image. Perez-Gomez examines the nature of architectural form in the light of eros, seduction, and the tradition of the poetic image in Western architecture. He charts the ethical dimension of architecture, tracing the connections between philia--the love of friends that entails mutual responsibility among equals--and architectural program. He explores the position of architecture at the limits of language and discusses the analogical language of philia in modernist architectural theory. Finally, he uncovers connections between ethics and poetics, describing a contemporary practice of architecture under the sign of love, incorporating both eros and philia.

Architecture --- Love. --- Aesthetics. --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Architecture, Western (Western countries) --- Building design --- Buildings --- Construction --- Western architecture (Western countries) --- Architectural aesthetics --- Aesthetics, Architectural --- Affection --- Design and construction --- Art --- Building --- Aesthetics --- Emotions --- First loves --- Friendship --- Intimacy (Psychology) --- ARCHITECTURE/General --- Architecture, Primitive

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The authors writings are based on his lecture series presented in 1968 at Yale University called "Architecture: The Making of Metaphors" which was then published in part in Main Currents in Modern Thought, then in many other journals including research into the works of Paul Weiss, Andrew Ortony, David Zarefsky and W. J. J. Gordon.

Architecture --- Symbolism in architecture. --- Architectural design. --- Metaphor. --- Phenomenology. --- Philosophy, Modern --- Architectural aesthetics --- Aesthetics, Architectural --- Aesthetics --- Parabole --- Figures of speech --- Reification --- Design --- Structural design --- Architectural symbolism --- Signs and symbols in architecture --- Philosophy. --- Aesthetics.

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Structural parts and elements of building --- structural engineering --- Building materials. Building technology --- bridges [built works] --- towers [single built works] --- Architecture --- roofs --- Building design --- Slaich, Jörg --- Structural engineering --- Civil engineers --- Aesthetics --- Biography --- Schlaich, Jörg --- Schlaig, Jörg --- Structural engineering. --- Aesthetics. --- Biography. --- Schlaich, Jörg. --- Engineering, Structural --- Structures, Engineering of --- Engineering --- Engineers --- Architectural aesthetics --- Aesthetics, Architectural --- Schlaich, Jörg. --- Architecture - Aesthetics --- Civil engineers - Biography