Clearly, the value of architecture lies both in its expression and in its performance, yet it is important for architects to ensure that Vitruvius’s venustas—the aesthetic or expressive side ...

The concept of aesthetics goes back to the Greek civilization and refers to perception through the senses. Despite being a philosophical concept, in architecture, aesthetics is used to translate ...

Architecture has long been a profession in aesthetic apartheid. The profession’s favored aesthetic, Modernism, has relegated all other “styles” to marginalized insignificance in laud ...

Architecture books can take you places ... while underplaying his aesthetic agenda. In describing the architect’s often radical, sometimes brilliant and deeply flawed vision that celebrated ...

“Indoor-outdoor connection, connection to the landscape, to natural light…that was really modernism that brought that into architecture,” Dangaran says. With these aesthetic elements also ...

But in this entertaining book he creates a taxonomy, identifying seven aesthetic waves in the city’s history of tourist-driven architecture, and showing how each was driven by shifts in popular ...

What does an approach to cities that takes into account black agency, social codes and aesthetics have to offer to city-making as such? To answer these questions, architecture must enter a new ...

As Brutalist buildings continue to face the prospect of demolition, appreciating the ethical and aesthetic values of this style of architecture becomes more important. Given concrete's immense ...