• Title of article

    Lightness and Fluidity: Remarks Concerning the Aesthetics of Elegance

  • Author/Authors

    David Goldblatt، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2007
  • Pages
    8
  • From page
    10
  • To page
    17
  • Abstract
    Over the last century, elegance as a term has been conspicuously absent from discussions centred on both architecture and the philosophy of aesthetics. Eleganceʹs time has, however, now come. David Goldblatt describes how the maturation of digital discourse has led to the onset of a new, multifaceted, sensual rationality that is evident in recent designs and constructed works
  • Keywords
    CATIA , John Locke , Modernist , Fred Astaire , Aesthetic Concepts , Maya , Frank Sibley , Zaha Hadidיs Leipzig BMW Motorcar Company and Wolfsburg Phaeno Science Centre , Ginger Rogers , The Abuse of Beauty , Contemporary Architecture Practice , Gehryיs Dancing Building , Zaha Hadid: The Complete Work , Reebok Flagship Store , Alan Colquhoun , Rem Koolhaasי Prada Store in New York City , Shanghai , David Hume , Jackson Pollockיs paintings , Frank Gehry and Associates , Immanuel Kant , Peter Eisenman , Postmodernist , Groucho Marx , Arthur Danto , Prague , Zollhoff 3 Media Park , Nietzsche , National-Nederlanden Building , Zaha Hadid Architects , Gehryיs Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao , Aesthetica , Roger Fry , Art Deco , Clive Bell , Occamיs razor , Clement Greenberg , Alexander Baumgarten , Dusseldorf , (the Gay Science) , Ali Rahim and Hina Jamelle , Ginger and Fred Building , GWF Hegel
  • Journal title
    Architectural Design
  • Serial Year
    2007
  • Journal title
    Architectural Design
  • Record number

    404047