{"product_id":"ugliness-and-judgment-on-architecture-in-the-public-eye-paperback","title":"Ugliness and Judgment: On Architecture in the Public Eye - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eTimothy Hyde\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA novel interpretation of architecture, ugliness, and the social consequences of aesthetic judgment\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen buildings are deemed ugly, what are the consequences? In \u003ci\u003eUgliness and Judgment\u003c\/i\u003e, Timothy Hyde considers the role of aesthetic judgment--and its concern for ugliness--in architectural debates and their resulting social effects across three centuries of British architectural history. From eighteenth-century ideas about Stonehenge to Prince Charles's opinions about the National Gallery, Hyde uncovers a new story of aesthetic judgment, where arguments about architectural ugliness do not pertain solely to buildings or assessments of style, but intrude into other spheres of civil society. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHyde explores how accidental and willful conditions of ugliness--including the gothic revival Houses of Parliament, the brutalist concrete of the South Bank, and the historicist novelty of Number One Poultry--have been debated in parliamentary committees, courtrooms, and public inquiries. He recounts how architects such as Christopher Wren, John Soane, James Stirling, and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe have been summoned by tribunals of aesthetic judgment. With his novel scrutiny of lawsuits for libel, changing paradigms of nuisance law, and conventions of monarchical privilege, he shows how aesthetic judgments have become entangled in wider assessments of art, science, religion, political economy, and the state. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMoving beyond superficialities of taste in order to see how architectural improprieties enable architecture to participate in social transformations, \u003ci\u003eUgliness and Judgment\u003c\/i\u003e sheds new light on the role of aesthetic measurement in our world.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTimothy Hyde\u003c\/b\u003e is associate professor in the history and theory of architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eConstitutional Modernism: Architecture and Civil Society in Cuba, 1933-1959\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Twitter @hyde_timothy\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 232\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 31, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50405221695725,"sku":"9780691243559","price":46.08,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.webster.direct\/en-ca\/products\/ugliness-and-judgment-on-architecture-in-the-public-eye-paperback","provider":"Webster.Direct","version":"1.0","type":"link"}