Ugliness and Judgment (eBook)

On Architecture in the Public Eye

Timothy Hyde (Autor)

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2019
232 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-19264-2 (ISBN)

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Timothy Hyde is associate professor in the history and theory of architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the author of Constitutional Modernism: Architecture and Civil Society in Cuba, 1933-1959. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Twitter @hyde_timothy

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A novel interpretation of architecture, ugliness, and the social consequences of aesthetic judgmentWhen buildings are deemed ugly, what are the consequences? In Ugliness and Judgment, Timothy Hyde considers the role of aesthetic judgment-and its concern for ugliness-in architectural debates and their resulting social effects across three centuries of British architectural history. From eighteenth-century ideas about Stonehenge to Prince Charles's opinions about the National Gallery, Hyde uncovers a new story of aesthetic judgment, where arguments about architectural ugliness do not pertain solely to buildings or assessments of style, but intrude into other spheres of civil society.Hyde explores how accidental and willful conditions of ugliness-including the gothic revival Houses of Parliament, the brutalist concrete of the South Bank, and the historicist novelty of Number One Poultry-have been debated in parliamentary committees, courtrooms, and public inquiries. He recounts how architects such as Christopher Wren, John Soane, James Stirling, and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe have been summoned by tribunals of aesthetic judgment. With his novel scrutiny of lawsuits for libel, changing paradigms of nuisance law, and conventions of monarchical privilege, he shows how aesthetic judgments have become entangled in wider assessments of art, science, religion, political economy, and the state.Moving beyond superficialities of taste in order to see how architectural improprieties enable architecture to participate in social transformations, Ugliness and Judgment sheds new light on the role of aesthetic measurement in our world.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 9.4.2019
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Malerei / Plastik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Rechtsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Architektur
• Schlagworte: Aesthetics • aesthetic theory • Ambiguity • Amenity society • Archigram • architectural firm • architectural historian • Architectural History (journal) • Architectural Review • Architectural Style • Architecture • Barrister • Bath Stone • Black spider memos • Brutalist Architecture • Building • Calculation • Career • Chad Varah • Charles Barry • Charles Jencks • Christopher Wren • Civil Society • Classicism • Consideration • Criticism • Cultural History • Designer • Disgust • Disparagement • ecclesiastical court • Eyesore • Georgian Group • Gothic Revival Architecture • Hayward Gallery • Ian Nairn • Illustration • Infrastructure • Inigo Jones • John Soane • John Summerson • John Wood, the Elder • Lecture • Legislation • London Metropolitan Archives • Martin Filler • Masonry • Materiality (interior design) • Measurement • Modern Architecture • Modernity • Mr. • narrative • Neoclassical architecture • Neoclassicism • newspaper • nuisance • parapet • Personhood • Philip Johnson • picturesque • plagiarism • plaintiff • Planning permission • Postmodernism • Postmodernity • Precedent • Princeton University Press • Prior Park • Proportion (architecture) • Publication • public inquiry • Pumping Station • Queen Elizabeth Hall • rebuttal • Requirement • residence • Reyner Banham • Royal Institute of British Architects • Satire • Social reality • Social Theory • Stanton Drew • Statute • Subjectivity • Suggestion • Symptom • Technology • The Aesthetic Dimension • Thought • treatise • Uncertainty • V. • Victorian Architecture • Vitruvius • Welfare State • William Butterfield • windlass • Writing • Zaha Hadid
• ISBN-10: 0-691-19264-2 / 0691192642
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-19264-2 / 9780691192642