HISTORY aestetics and beauty

Arch and aestetics

Mosern science
Descartes . I know that i fo think
Foundation for descarted. You can t trust anything other tgat thought.
Dualism - mind snd materiality
Geometry, numbers are goven.

John locke - nonsense!
Knowledge only grom experiencr
Tabula rasa. Everything is trstinle and referable to.

Sensation and reflection
Exp of stiff and exp  of ideas

Burke - how we sense the world.
No classical accounts of beauty
Distinction between beautiful snd dublime as sensation.
Beauty - attraction
Sublime - fear, retreat from
Painting and nature are the same



Reynolds
Art is imitative
Aestetics is an abstraction from exoerience

18th cebtury
 
Pevsner
We see beauty according to who we are socially and politucally

Jonathan hill -wather arch

Kant - reconcile descartes and reynolds
Neither resolve
There is a wod we are experiencing nut we exp theough categories of reason.space and time
There is no quality of space and rime of the world, they are of mind.

Taste and easthetic judgementa are different.
We can have SHARED experiences of judgements.
And easthetic judgements has an oUGHt . You ought to seenit like i do.
 We share spaw and timeZ aestetic we cand and have to construct

Theodir Adorno
He contains beautiful and sublime within social changes.
Art is a social institutions. It has a set of functions historically. It has roles.
Role of contemporary modern art.
Modern art has one sole frunction. It has no function at all.
T frees out from the entrapment of contemporary society. It throws us out if the world as we look at it.
It frees us from structure of society

Peter burger

Eisenman - opositions
Freeing architevture
It inky challenges formal aspects of architevture
Exploration of space. Retreat and escape from functional requirements.
Taken further by koolhans
Arch must provide space outside social regulations of society