Architectural Principles in the Age of Fraud Why So Many Architects Pretend to Be Philosophers and Don't Care How Buildings Look - ORO Editions

Philosophy exercises a massive influence on contemporary architectural culture and the understanding of the built environment. Discussions of architects and architectural academics are heavily loaded with theoretical ideas, concepts and views imported from the works of philosophers. At the same time this architectural employment of philosophy rarely goes beyond the tendency to mine philosophical works for ideas, words and phrases and use them, often without much understanding, in order to promote architectural agendas and embellish theoretical claims made by architects and academics. The book presents the history of this phenomenon for the past 100 years. It describes and analyses numerous, often funny, entertaining as well as embarrassing, examples of false intellectual pretence and pompous but incompetent philosophical posturing by prominent architects and architectural academics of the era and their efforts to bamboozle readers, colleagues and the general public. The book presents a powerful criticism of modernist views on architecture and argues that the rise of obfuscation and philosophical posturing among architects and architectural academics is a defensive strategy intended to draw attention away from the failure of Modernism in architecture.

ISBN:	9781954081451
Publisher:	ORO Editions
Imprint:	ORO Editions
Published date:	09 May 2022
DEWEY:	720.904
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	160
Weight:	390g
Height:	155mm
Width:	230mm
Spine width:	13mm

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