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  • 1 - Good Construction, Functionality, and Aesthetic Appeal

  • Paul Guyer, Brown University, Rhode Island
  • Book:
    A Philosopher Looks at Architecture
    Published online:
    20 May 2021
    Print publication:
    20 May 2021, pp 15-54

  • Summary

    This chapter shows how Vitruvius developed his three fundamental categories within a naturalistic and empiricist conception of human life and perception. In the Renaissance, Leon Battista Alberti and Andrea Palladio, inspired by Neo-Platonism, took a more rationalistic, mathematical approach to beauty in their theories and their buildings. In the eighteenth century, the Scottish philosopher Lord Kames returned to Vitruvius's empiricist approach, while the French theorist Marc-Antoine Laugier, inspired by the aesthetic theory of Charles Batteux, identified beauty with the imitation of nature, but specifically with the identification of beauty with structural functionality.