[FREE] The Ethical Function of Architecture (MIT Press)
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| #906045 in Books | 1998-07-03 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 10.00 x.81 x7.00l,2.27 | File Name: 026258171X | 424 pages
||4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| A rare thoughtful consideration of architectural meaning|By David R. Scheer|Harries, a professor of philosophy at Yale, has a long-standing interest in architecture. (Disclosure- I took his course on the Philosophy of Architecture while a grad student in the early 80's.) Himself a student of Heidegger, Harries's work in architecture has largely been a reassessment and continua|||The stirring gift of a mind like Karsten Harries allows a link between architecture and philosophy. In our splintered, individualist age he reminds us it is impossible to think without generalities. (Steven Holl Architect)|
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 n...
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