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- A Philosopher Looks at Architecture
- A Philosopher Looks at
- A Philosopher Looks at Architecture
- Copyright page
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Introduction
- 1 Good Construction, Functionality, and Aesthetic Appeal
- 2 The Meaning of Beauty
- 3 Multiplicity of Meaning in Twentieth-Century Theories
- 4 Words and Works
- 5 Looking Forward
- Notes
- Index
4 - Words and Works
Modern Architecture and Traditional Values
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 May 2021
- A Philosopher Looks at Architecture
- A Philosopher Looks at
- A Philosopher Looks at Architecture
- Copyright page
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Introduction
- 1 Good Construction, Functionality, and Aesthetic Appeal
- 2 The Meaning of Beauty
- 3 Multiplicity of Meaning in Twentieth-Century Theories
- 4 Words and Works
- 5 Looking Forward
- Notes
- Index
Summary
This chapter argues both from the words and works of three twentieth-century masters, Frank Lloyd Wright, Adolf Loos, and Mies van der Rohe, that the Vitruvian values remained central to their architecture, for all the radical differences in style, materials, and technologies among their works and between their architecture and that of the Greco-Roman tradition. It also argues that for all the differences among these architects, the idea of freedom was central to their conceptions of the aesthetic appeal to architecture.
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- A Philosopher Looks at Architecture , pp. 127 - 162Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021