On the Appearance of the World
eBook - PDF

On the Appearance of the World

A Future for Aesthetics in Architecture

  1. 85 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

On the Appearance of the World

A Future for Aesthetics in Architecture

About this book

How can architecture develop better aesthetic directions for the twenty-first-century built environment?

Our world, increasingly defined by efficient but unconsidered architecture and cities, seems to be getting uglier. In On the Appearance of the World, Mark Foster Gage asks why. He imagines a future scenario where architectural design and ideas from aesthetic philosophy align toward the production of a built world that is more humane, habitable, beautiful, and just.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title Page
  3. Series List
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Contents
  7. Preface
  8. The Appearance of Architecture
  9. The Appearance of Aesthetics
  10. Architecture as an Art/Not-Art
  11. The Separation of Art, Architecture, and Aesthetics
  12. Architecture as the Framework of Human Perception
  13. Architecture’s Aesthetic Allergy
  14. Architecture’s Aesthetic Categories
  15. The Anti-Aesthetic
  16. Suppressed Aesthetics
  17. Communicatory Aesthetics
  18. Formalist Aesthetics
  19. Speculative Aesthetics
  20. Conclusion, or The Appearance of the Unknown
  21. Acknowledgments
  22. Selected Bibliography
  23. Author Biography