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The Freedom of Aesthetics
Author(s) -
Furman Adam Nathaniel
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
architectural design
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.128
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1554-2769
pISSN - 0003-8504
DOI - 10.1002/ad.2303
Subject(s) - aesthetics , style (visual arts) , meaning (existential) , architecture , function (biology) , sociology , epistemology , computer science , philosophy , art , visual arts , evolutionary biology , biology
Architecture begins when ‘building’ ends. This may make it sound like an unnecessary add‐on to construction, but – argues London‐based designer, educator and writer Adam Nathaniel Furman – the architect's function as a spatialiser of aesthetics and meaning is precisely what makes the profession crucially enriching to human existence. Observing how it is too often dominated by a consensus on style and approach that prevents it from embodying the full complexity of its time, he highlights brief past periods of greater aesthetic freedom, and invites today's architects to a similarly open attitude, to create works that are truly inspired – and inspiring.