Diane Morgan

Kant for Architects

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Students of architecture will gain much from considering Kant, whose critical project consisted in testing and exploring the viability of ideas, so as to ascertain to what extent, and crucially, how, ideas can have a constructive effect on the whole world, and on us as active agents.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 146
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. September 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 340g
• ISBN-13: 9780415698689
• ISBN-10: 0415698685
• Artikelnr.: 33870306

Autorenporträt

Diane Morgan is Lecturer in Cultural Studies at the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies, University of Leeds, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Why Kant Now? 1. Placing Kant: The City of Königsberg/
Kaliningrad. 2. The Critical Project and Architecture. 3. The Precarious
Situation of Architecture and its Relation to Beauty. 4. From the Sublime
to the Cosmopolitical: Building for an Infinitely Better Future. 5.
Building Cosmopolitically?: "Fluid Geography" and "Total Thinking".
Conclusion: Architects of the Future Unite! Further Reading. Bibliography.
Index.