How Long to Read The Ethical Function of Architecture

How Long Does it Take to Read The Ethical Function of Architecture?

It takes the average reader 7 hours and 21 minutes to read The Ethical Function of Architecture by Karsten Harries

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Can architecture help us find our place and way in today's complex world? Can it return individuals to a whole, to a world, to a community? Developing Giedion's claim that contemporary architecture's main task is to interpret a way of life valid for our time, philosopher Karsten Harries answers that architecture should serve a common ethos. But if architecture is to meet that task, it first has to free itself from the dominant formalist approach, and get beyond the notion that its purpose is to produce endless variations of the decorated shed. In a series of cogent and balanced arguments, Harries questions the premises on which architects and theorists have long relied—premises which have contributed to architecture's current identity crisis and marginalization. He first criticizes the aesthetic approach, focusing on the problems of decoration and ornament. He then turns to the language of architecture. If the main task of architecture is indeed interpretation, in just what sense can it be said to speak, and what should it be speaking about? Expanding upon suggestions made by Martin Heidegger, Harries also considers the relationship of building to the idea and meaning of dwelling. Architecture, Harries observes, has a responsibility to community; but its ethical function is inevitably also political. He concludes by examining these seemingly paradoxical functions.

How long is The Ethical Function of Architecture?

The Ethical Function of Architecture by Karsten Harries is 428 pages long, and a total of 110,424 words.

This makes it 144% the length of the average book. It also has 135% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Ethical Function of Architecture Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 10 hours and 3 minutes to read The Ethical Function of Architecture aloud.

What Reading Level is The Ethical Function of Architecture?

The Ethical Function of Architecture is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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