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The ethical function of architecture / Karsten Harries.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [1997]Copyright date: ©1997Description: xiii, 403 pages : illustrations ; 26 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0262082527
  • 9780262082525
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 720.1
LOC classification:
  • NA2500. H375 1997
Contents:
List of Illustrations -- Preface -- 1. Introduction: Postmodern Prelude -- 2. The Aesthetic Approach -- 3. The Problem of Decoration -- 4. The Promise of Ornament -- 5. The Decorated Shed -- 6. The Language Problem -- 7. Representation and Symbol -- 8. Representation and Re-Presentation -- 9. Tales of the Origin of Building -- 10. Building and Dwelling -- 11. Space and Place -- 12. The Voices of Space -- 13. Learning from Two Invisible Houses -- 14. Building, Dwelling, and Time -- 15. The Terror of Time and the Love of Geometry -- 16. Mold and Ruins -- 17. Death, Love, and Building -- 18. Architecture and Building -- 19. The Publicness of Architecture -- 20. Grave and Monument -- 21. The Representation of Life -- 22. Dreams of Utopia -- 23. Lessons of the Labyrinth -- 24. Conclusion: The Shape of Modernity and the Future of Architecture -- Notes -- Index.
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Book City Campus City Campus Main Collection 720.1 HAR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A176023B

Includes bibliographical references (pages 368-394) and index.

List of Illustrations -- Preface -- 1. Introduction: Postmodern Prelude -- 2. The Aesthetic Approach -- 3. The Problem of Decoration -- 4. The Promise of Ornament -- 5. The Decorated Shed -- 6. The Language Problem -- 7. Representation and Symbol -- 8. Representation and Re-Presentation -- 9. Tales of the Origin of Building -- 10. Building and Dwelling -- 11. Space and Place -- 12. The Voices of Space -- 13. Learning from Two Invisible Houses -- 14. Building, Dwelling, and Time -- 15. The Terror of Time and the Love of Geometry -- 16. Mold and Ruins -- 17. Death, Love, and Building -- 18. Architecture and Building -- 19. The Publicness of Architecture -- 20. Grave and Monument -- 21. The Representation of Life -- 22. Dreams of Utopia -- 23. Lessons of the Labyrinth -- 24. Conclusion: The Shape of Modernity and the Future of Architecture -- Notes -- Index.

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