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The Ethical Function of Architecture

The Ethical Function of Architecture( )
Author: Harries, Karsten
ISBN:978-0-262-08252-5
Publication Date:Dec 1996
Publisher:MIT Press
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $55.00
Book Description:

Can architecture help us find our place and way in today's complex world? Can it return individuals to a whole, to a world, to a community? Developing Giedion's claim that contemporary architecture's main task is to interpret a way of life valid for our time, philosopher Karsten Harries answers that architecture should serve a common ethos. But if architecture is to meet that task, it first has to free itself from the dominant formalist approach, and get beyond the notion that its...
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Book Details
Pages:414
Detailed Subjects: Architecture / General
Architecture / Criticism
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):7.371 x 10.14 x 1.17 Inches
Book Weight:2.772 Pounds



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