There is a fascinating, digressive chapter in Hugo's Notre-Dame de Paris about how architecture was once the main form of expression of human thought and how the invention of the printing press put an end to this.Are there any other books about this topic? The intersection of philosophy and architecture? And was Hugo even correct?
>>24945477Read Spengler.
John Ruskin was big on this, I think. I read through Stones of Venice and got some hints of what you're describing vis-à-vis Hugo.
>>24945477A R C H I T E K T O N I K
The Aesthetics of Architecture by Roger ScrutonAlso his book on Beauty
>>24945477I believe that this book by Jean Hani would fall somewhere within this subject.
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>>24945477>intersection of philosophy and architectureOrnament and Crime - interesting if you want to know how some of the proto-modern architects saw their work as expression of a certain philosophy
not exactly what you were looking for but i've always loved this description of gothic architecture from chesterton.https://www.online-literature.com/chesterton/alarms-and-discursions/1/
>>24945477That sounds really interesting. I admit I have not read any Hugo yet. I assume you recommend Notre-Dame de Paris (thats the hunchback, yah?)
>>24946227Nice. I recently started reading Chesterton and absolutely love his writing.
>>24945477This is good I heard
>>24945477>Theater of the World, Yates
>>24945477>how architecture was once the main form of expression of human thought and how the invention of the printing press put an end to this.I don't understand this meme online on how old building is SOUL and BASED and new buildings are some SOULLESS and UGLY. I genuinely believe if a medieval man saw a modern city or buildings, he would see them as divine. We can now build multiple sky-high buildings that shine so bright they can be seen from space. Not to mention, and this is the part most people ignore, most historic buildings were wooden shacks that didn't stand the test of time. These cathedrals took CENTURIES to make and were basically the only good-looking building in Medieval Europe. It's textbook definition of survivorship bias.
>>24947730Yeah, but that's a different topic. It's not discussion about "why old good new bad", but discussion about which artform was the most important for human thought during these times, just like arguably cinema was the most important 20th century medium and novel was 19th century's.
>>24947730It is true. But /pol/ accuses muh hamburg school while the reality is capitalism (and its good).Back then the majority lived/worked most of their day out doors, you really had two classes of buildings.>A) State/religious (most of the beauty people are referencing): Sovereigns and bishops did not have to answer to their electorate about absurd costs. >Private/commercial: Built by guilds, state monopolies, etc, that didn't have to cut costs by 2% or risk being completely eclipsed in a few years/having their share price tanked by a truly public stock market.These days we live in a society where (thanks to capitalism(made reasonable by socialist activism)) laborers are compensated at a much higher rate far above subsistence (a builder will have a car, his own home, tv, go on vacations, etc) and where the spenders are held to a much stricter standard (in turn allowing that kind of lifestyle for the builder instead of the insane margins that support the splendor of some city square in yurop.You are right though the bund and that city are pretty sweet architecturally, but partly due to the problems I mentioned above not yet being resolved in China. Special place in my heart though.
forget every rec here and LISTEN TO ME>Architecture as Metaphor- Kojin Karatani (not to be confused with Kojima)
>>24947730>>24947774Modern cities are contra natura and if there is any justice in this world He will destroy them.
