The Ethical Function of Architecture

by Karsten Harries

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 026258171X
• ISBN13: 9780262581714
• Release Date: July 1998
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 2.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.0" x 10.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher