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‘A Rose by Any Other Name Would Smell as Sweet’: Finding Beauty in the Past Century
Author(s) -
Powers Alan
Publication year - 2019
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.2489
Subject(s) - beauty , rose (mathematics) , modernism (music) , architecture , art history , art , aesthetics , history , visual arts , horticulture , biology
Abstract Were ideas of beauty denied by modern architects, only to re‐emerge recently? Alan Powers , teacher of architectural history at the London School of Architecture, University of Westminster and New York University in London, looks at notions of beauty and its synonyms during the halcyon days of 20th‐century Modernism.