{"product_id":"beauty-matters-9781119546245","title":"Beauty Matters","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeauty in architecture matters again. This issue of\u003ci\u003eAD\u003c\/i\u003eposits that after 80 years of aggressive suppression of engagement with aesthetics, the temporarily dormant preoccupation with beauty is back. This is evidenced by a current cultural shift from the supposedly objective to an emerging trust in the subjective  a renewed fascination for aesthetics supported by new knowledge emanating simultaneously from disparate disciplines.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDigital design continues to influence architectural discourse, not only due to changes in manufacturing but also through establishing meaning. The very term ''post-digital'' was introduced by computational designers and artists, who accept that digital gains in architectural design are augmented by human judgement and cognitive intuition.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe issue takes an interdisciplinary approach to this re-emerging interest in beauty across neuroscience, neuroaesthetics, mathematics, philosophy and architecture, while discussing the work of the internat\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction Architecture and Beauty: A Symbiotic Relationship\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 2 Beauty in Architecture: Not a Luxury – Only a Necessity\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 3 Truth and Beauty: The Role of Aesthetics in Mathematics and Physics\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 4 The Return of Beauty: Driving a Wedge Between Objects and Qualities\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 5 Abstraction and Informality Generate a New Aesthetic: An Interview with Kazuyo Sejima\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 6 New Solids and Massive Forms\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 7 Which Beauty Will Guide Us? Seeking a Reflective, Sustainable, Socially Engaged Visual Culture\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 8 Chromatic Compositions: Design Dissonance and the Aesthetic of Fusion\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 9 Beauty as Ecological Intelligence: Bio-digital Aesthetics as a Value System of Post-Anthropocene Architecture\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 10 The Primacy of Relationships and the Reclamation of Beauty – Jeanne Gang: Observed and Interviewed\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 11 The Geometry of Seduction: Considerations of Beauty from Noun to Verb\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 12 A Specific Theory of Models: The Posthuman Beauty of Weird Scales, Snowglobes and Supercomponents\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 13 Ambiguous, Bipolar Beauty: And Similarly Agile and Fragile Post-Digital Practices\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 14 Deep Immediacy: Programming Beauty\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 15 Beauty is in the Back Story: Diversity, Complexity and Collaborative Making in the Australian Condition – In Conversation with John Wardle\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 16 In Search of the Unseen: Towards Superhuman Intuition\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 17 In Part Whole: The Aesthetics of the Discrete\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 18 Counterpoint – 'A Rose by Any Other Name Would Smell as Sweet': Finding Beauty in the Past Century\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley \u0026 Sons Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49407079678295,"sku":"9781119546245","price":30.35,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781119546245.jpg?v=1730498103","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/beauty-matters-9781119546245","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}