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This study examines the influence of perspective on architecture, highlighting how critical historical changes in the representation and perception of space continue to inform the way architects design. Since its earliest developments, perspective was conceived as an exemplary form of representation that served as an ideal model of how everyday existence could be measured and ultimately judged. Temple argues that underlying the symbolic and epistemological meanings of perspective there prevails a deeply embedded redemptive view of the world that is deemed perfectible. Temple explores this idea through a genealogical investigation of the cultural and philosophical contexts of perspective throughout history, highlighting how these developments influenced architectural thought. This broad historical enquiry is accompanied by a series of case-studies of modern or contemporary buildings, each demonstrating a particular affinity with the accompanying historical model of perspective.

Architecture and philosophy. --- Perspective (Philosophy) --- Ontology --- Philosophy --- Philosophy and architecture --- platonic --- cosmology --- fischer --- von --- erlach --- prisca --- theologia --- stanza --- della --- segnatura

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The eighteenth century struggled to define architecture as either an art or a science-the image of the architect as a grand figure who synthesizes all other disciplines within a single master plan emerged from this discourse. Immanuel Kant and Johann Wolfgang Goethe described the architect as their equal, a genius with godlike creativity. For writers from Descartes to Freud, architectural reasoning provided a method for critically examining consciousness. The architect, as philosophers liked to think of him, was obligated by the design and construction process to mediate between the abstract and the actual.In On the Ruins of Babel, Daniel Purdy traces this notion back to its wellspring. He surveys the volatile state of architectural theory in the Enlightenment, brought on by the newly emerged scientific critiques of Renaissance cosmology, then shows how German writers redeployed Renaissance terminology so that "harmony," "unity," "synthesis," "foundation," and "orderliness" became states of consciousness, rather than terms used to describe the built world. Purdy's distinctly new interpretation of German theory reveals how metaphors constitute interior life as an architectural space to be designed, constructed, renovated, or demolished. He elucidates the close affinity between Hegel's Romantic aesthetic of space and Daniel Libeskind's deconstruction of monumental architecture in Berlin's Jewish Museum.Through a careful reading of Walter Benjamin's writing on architecture as myth, Purdy details how classical architecture shaped Benjamin's modernist interpretations of urban life, particularly his elaboration on Freud's archaeology of the unconscious. Benjamin's essays on dreams and architecture turn the individualist sensibility of the Enlightenment into a collective and mythic identification between humans and buildings.

Architecture and philosophy --- Philosophy, German --- Architecture and literature --- German literature --- Philosophy and architecture --- History. --- History and criticism. --- Philosophy --- Literature --- Literature and architecture --- European history

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Où chercher ce qui encore peut ouvrir l'homme à son existence ? Où trouver des lieux qui libèrent dans l'espace des instants qui échappent au prescriptif, au dispositif, au fonctionnalisme? La cité, aujourd'hui soumise à une pensée unique et totalitaire, ne laisse plus aucun intervalle où le sens puisse se ressourcer et se décider esthétiquement et éthiquement. La saturation des espaces démontrée par la ville moderne signe l'emprise de la pulsion de mort et du monde du narcissisme où rien ne fait appel vers l'autre. La ville actuelle, dans ses prolongements multiples (périphéries, banlieues, centres commerciaux, villes nouvelles) annonce la mort de la cité. etre ensemble dans l'espace public - rues, places, allées, parcs et jardins - consistait autrefois pour l'architecte à promouvoir des espaces de rencontres et des moments de quiétude, dans un rythme en rupture. L'ensemble était accueilli par des formes esthétiques qui articulaient le passé au présent, le public au privé, le proche au lointain, le dedans au dehors. Aujourd'hui, le futur n'a rien à nous dire et l'histoire, malheureusement, rien à nous apprendre. Il nous reste encore à soutenir ce qui fonde et articule les liens de l'homme à la communauté d'un côté et à sa facticité de l'autre. Tout être parlant cherche dans le temps de sa vie des lieux où le désir et l'inconnu nouent le hasard à l'existence.

Philosophical anthropology --- Aesthetics --- Place (Philosophy) --- Architecture and philosophy --- 241.62*2 --- Theologische ethiek: relaties binnen sociale groepen --- 241.62*2 Theologische ethiek: relaties binnen sociale groepen --- Philosophy --- Philosophy and architecture

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Architecture, Modern --- Architecture and philosophy --- Architecture --- 72.01 --- 331 --- 347.78 --- 347.787 --- Architectural aesthetics --- Aesthetics, Architectural --- Philosophy and architecture --- Modern architecture --- Aesthetics --- Architectuur (esthetica) --- Architectuuresthetica --- Architectuur (theorie) --- Architectuurtheorie --- Architect (beroep) --- Artistieke eigendom --- Copyright --- Auteursrechten (ontwerp) --- Revival movements (Art) --- Arts --- Mouvements de renouveau (Art) --- Architecture et philosophie --- Esthétique

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"While the work of Henri Lefebvre has become better known in the English-speaking world since the 1991 translation of his 1974 masterpiece, The Production of Space, his influence on the actual production of architecture and the city has been less pronounced. Although now widely read in schools of architecture, planning and urban design, Lefebvre's message for practice remains elusive; inevitably so because the entry of his work into the Anglosphere has come with repression of the two most challenging aspects of his thinking: romanticism and Utopia, which simultaneously confront modernity while being progressive. Contemporary discomfort with romanticism and Utopia arguably obstructs the shift of Lefebvre's thinking from being objects of theoretical interest into positions of actually influencing practices. Attempting to understand and act upon architecture and the city with Lefebvre but without Utopia and romanticism risks muting the impact of his ideas. Although Utopia may seem to have no place in the present, Lefebvre reveals this as little more than a self-serving affirmation that 'there is no alternative' to social and political detachment. Demanding the impossible may end in failure but as Lefebvre shows us, doing so is the first step towards other possibilities. To think with Lefebvre is to think about Utopia, doing so makes contact with what is most enduring about his project for the city and its inhabitants, and with what is most radical about it as well. Lefebvre for Architects offers a concise account of the relevance of Henri Lefebvre's writing for the theory and practice of architecture, planning and urban design. This book is accessible for students and practitioners who wish to fully engage with the design possibilities offered by Lefebvre's philosophy"--

Architecture and philosophy. --- Visionary architecture. --- Utopias. --- Architecture --- Architecture and society. --- Architectuur ; stedenbouw ; Lefebvre, Henri --- Architectuurtheorie ; utopia ; de ideale wereld --- 72.01 --- Architecture and sociology --- Society and architecture --- Sociology and architecture --- Ideal states --- States, Ideal --- Utopian literature --- Political science --- Socialism --- Voyages, Imaginary --- Dystopias --- Futuristic architecture --- Utopian architecture --- Fantastic architecture --- Philosophy and architecture --- Philosophy --- Philosophy. --- Architectuur ; theorie, filosofie, esthetica --- Social aspects --- Human factors --- Lefebvre, Henri --- utopias --- visionary architecture --- Architecture and philosophy --- Visionary architecture --- Utopias --- Architecture and society --- architectuurfilosofie