Beauty Classical definitions of beauty judgment of beauty
Beauty: Classical definitions of beauty; judgment of beauty (pleasure & truth); composition as source for beauty; beauty as transcendence experience and morality; beauty as unity, proportion and order; changing relationship between beauty and truth; relativism, taste, pictorial effect, and pleasure; the individual and the rise of subject interpretations of beauty; the search for a regional expression; pressure of politics and subjective beauty on the Classical orders and the idea of the universal.Readings:Mitrović, Philosophy for Architects, 35-39Module 7 has 16 pages of content. Each page contains an audio lecture that should automatically play. A link to download the audio file is also posted if you have difficulties with the autoplay feature. Craft and the Form of beauty Intellectual Period: Greek Classical– Theme: Beauty– Personage: Plato — Chronology: 427 – 348 BC — Discipline: PhilosophyClick here to download the audio file and listen DesignTheory.01_05-Beauty-Plato.mp3 Proportions as a definition of beauty Intellectual Period: Greek Classical– Theme: Beauty– Personage: Plato — Chronology: 427 – 348 BC — Discipline: PhilosophyClick here to download the audio file and listen DesignTheory.01_06-Beauty-Plato.mp3 Judgment of beauty (pleasure & truth)Intellectual Period: Greek Classical– Theme: Beauty– Personage: Plato — Chronology: 427 – 348 BC — Discipline: PhilosophyClick here to download the audio file and listen DesignTheory.01_08-Beauty-Plato.mp3 Composition as Source for Beauty Intellectual Period: Greek Classical– Theme: Beauty– Personage: Aristotle — Chronology: 387 – 322 BC — Discipline: PhilosophyClick here to download the audio file and listen DesignTheory.01_12-Beauty-Aristotle.mp3 Neoplatonic – Beauty as transcendence experience + morality Intellectual Period: Roman Classical– Theme: Beauty– Personage: Plotinus — Chronology: 1 AD — Discipline: PhilosophyClick here to download the audio file and listen DesignTheory.02_02-Beauty-Neoplatonic.mp3 Vitruvian trinity of structure, function and beauty – introduction of good tasteIntellectual Period: Roman Classical — Theme: Beauty– Personage: Vitruvius — Chronology: 34 BC – 14 BC — Discipline: Architectural TheoryClick here to download the audio file and listen DesignTheory.02_06-Beauty-Vitruvius.mp3 Symmetry as an essential character in a definition of beauty, analogy of the body Intellectual Period: Roman Classical — Theme: Beauty– Personage: Vitruvius — Chronology: 35 BC – 14 BC — Discipline: Philosophy Click here to download the audio file and listen DesignTheory.02_07-Beauty-Vitruvius.mp3 Beauty as unity, proportion and orderIntellectual Period: Medieval — Theme: Beauty– Personage: St Augustine — Chronology: 354-430 AD — Discipline: PhilosophyClick here to download the audio file and listen DesignTheory.03_02-Beauty-St Augustine.mp3 Nature as access to truth which leads to access to beauty, proportionsIntellectual Period: Renaissance — Theme: Beauty– Personage: Alberti — Chronology: 1404-72 — Discipline: Architectural TheoryClick here to download the audio file and listen DesignTheory.03_04-Beauty-Alberti.mp3 Relativism, taste, pictorial effect, pleasure Intellectual Period: Renaissance — Theme: Beauty– Personage: Serlio — Chronology:1475-1554 — Discipline: Architectural TheoryClick here to download the audio file and listen DesignTheory.03_07-Beauty-Serlio.mp3 Bacon, utility and the rejection of visual interpretation as a source of beauty, rise of functionIntellectual Period: Enlightenment — Theme: Beauty– Personage: Francis Bacon — Chronology:1561-1626 — Discipline: Philosophy Click here to download the audio file and listen DesignTheory.04_05-Beauty-Bacon.mp3 The individual and the rise of subject interpretations of beauty, the breaking of beauty’s trinity with ethics and truthIntellectual Period: Enlightenment — Theme: Beauty– Personage: None — Chronology:1500-1600s — Discipline: Philosophy Click here to download the audio file and listen DesignTheory.04_08-Beauty-subjectivism.mp3 Taste as the judgement of beauty with the rise of subjectivism, pleasure as focusIntellectual Period: Enlightenment — Theme: Beauty– Personage: None — Chronology:1500-1600s — Discipline: Philosophy Click here to download the audio file and listen DesignTheory.04_09-Beauty-taste.mp3 Search for a regional expression, pressure of politics and subjective beauty on the Classical ordersIntellectual Period: Enlightenment — Theme: Beauty– Personage: Francois Blondel — Chronology:1617-86 — Discipline: Architectural TheoryClick here to download the audio file and listen DesignTheory.05_03-Beauty-Blondel.mp3 Beauty as the consistent appreciation through pleasureIntellectual Period: Enlightenment — Theme: Beauty– Personage: Francois Blondel — Chronology:1617-86 — Discipline: Architectural Theory Click here to download the audio file and listen DesignTheory.05_04-Beauty-Blondel.mp3 Beauty becomes divided with absolute and arbitrary aspects as a way of addressing issues of tasteIntellectual Period: Enlightenment — Theme: Beauty– Personage: Claude Perrault — Chronology:1613-88 — Discipline: Architectural TheoryClick here to download the audio file and listen DesignTheory.05_06-Beauty-Perrault.mp3 Overview1. Each student, using the Blackboard Discussion Board feature will write a brief response to that question. The response will include reasoned, thoughtful information.2. Secondly, each student will post an original question. The material shouldbe developed from the course material but will connect with ideas to the contemporary practice ofarchitecture.3. Finally, each student should respond to a minimum of one peer post.Grading of the Discussion Board will be applied as follows:• Posts submitted on time, respectively (1 point)• Evidence of understanding the base theoretical concepts (up to 4 points)• Organization and overall writing quality (up to 1 point)• Presence of critical thinking and analysis (2 point)• Use of at least two citations from books, book chapters, or academic journals (2 points)*** Please let me know if the audio file work or not.