The Æsthetics of Modern Architecture

D. A. Hewitt | King’s College London | MPhil Philosophy | 2006

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Bill Brandt Top Withens (1945)

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Chamberlin, Powell & Bon Barbican (1964-82)

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St. Bernard Dog

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John Nash (1825-35), Edward Blore (East Wing) (1847-50), and Sir Aston Webb (re-facing and re-design of East Wing)
(1913) Buckingham Palace

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Sir Terry Farrell MI6 Headquarters (1988-93)

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Sir Terry Farrell Charing Cross Station (1987-90)

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Gray’s Inn

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Sir William Chambers Somerset House (1776-1801)

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Michael Craig Martin An Oak Tree (1973)

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The K Foundation Watch the K Foundation Burn a Million Quid (1994-97)

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Minoru Yamasaki Pruitt-Igoe Housing Scheme (1952-55) (Demolished 1972)

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Pruitt-Igoe corridor

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Foster & Partners Reichstag renovation (1992-99)

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Le Corbusier “A Contemporary City” (1929)

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Le Corbusier “A Contemporary City” (1929)

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Richard Rogers, planning for mixed use developments (1997)

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Richard Rogers “polycentric sustainable urban development” (1997) 18
Le Corbusier Villa Stein (1927)

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Le Corbusier Villa Savoye (1928-29)

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Villa Savoye interior

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Richard Rogers & Renzo Piano Centre Georges Pompidou (1971-77)

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Rem Koolhaas (Office for Metropolitan Architecture) Casa da Música (1999-2005)

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English Tudor building, Chester

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Classical Colonnade: Stoa of Attalos, Athens (159-138 BC)

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Gothic architecture: Westminster Abbey

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Poundbury (begun 1988)

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Poundbury

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Sir Denys Lasdun National Theatre (1967-76)

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Quinlan & Francis Terry Architects Howard Building, Downing College, Cambridge (1985-89)

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Raphael St. George and the Dragon (1505-07)

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Bridget Riley (1961 & 1964)

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Piet Mondrian Composition with Yellow Patch (1930)

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Carl Andre Equivalent VIII (1966)

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Oriental Calligraphy

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Phidias, Ictinus & Callicrates Parthenon (437-433 BC)

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Coliseum (c. 70 AD)

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Andrea Palladio Villa Capra, “La Rotunda” (begun c. 1570)

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Chartres Cathedral, window interior (1194-1260)

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Louis H. Sullivan Prudential Building (now Guaranty Building) (1894)

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Louis H. Sullivan Wainwright Building (1896)

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Wainwright Building, detail

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Louis H. Sullivan National Farmers’ Bank, Owatonna (1908)

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Bell & Ross BR-01 Instrument

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Bell & Ross Type Marine Professional

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Karl Friedrich Schinkel, two proposals for Werdersche Kirche, Berlin

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Dray Horse

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Frank Lloyd Wright La Miniatura (1922-23)

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Frank Lloyd Wright Fallingwater (1935-39)

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Sir Christopher Wren St. Paul’s Cathedral (1675-1708)

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Sir Charles Barry & A. W. N. Pugin Palace of Westminster (1837-52)

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Richard Rogers Partnership Millennium Dome (1996-99)

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Foster & Partners 30 St. Mary Axe (1997-2004)

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Santiago Calatrava Alamillo Bridge, Seville (1987-92)

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Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi Statue of Liberty (1884-86), pedestal by Richard Morris Hunt (1885)

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Michael Landy Semi-detached (2004)

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I. M. Pei Louvre Pyramid (1983-89)

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Alison & Peter Smithson Economist Building (1959-65)

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Foster & Partners HSBC Headquarters (1979-86)

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Richard Rogers Partnership Lloyd’s Building (1978-86)

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Bedford Square

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Michaelangelo David (1501-04)

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David, detail

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Inter alia quoins, pilasters and Acanthus leaf mouldings

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Gothic tracery and fan vaulting, Bath Abbey (completed c. 1156)

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Sir Richard Westmacott The Rise of Civilisation (1852)

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Sir Robert Smirke British Museum (1852)

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Cruciform church plans

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Pointed arches, Westminster Abbey

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Sex symbol

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Sex symbol

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David Hume (1711-76)

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Contemporary Savile Row suit

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Antony Gormley Angel of the North (1998)

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Henri Labrouste Bibliothèque Ste. Geneviève (1843)

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Santiago Calatrava Lyons Airport Railway Station (1989-94)

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Donald Judd Untitled (1990)

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Antony Gormley Post (1993)

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 Many of the above images each derive from a different source. All images have been edited in some respect by Daniel
Hewitt (e.g. by cropping, or by modifying the contrast, colour balance, resolution, etc.). A list of photo credits can be found
at http://danielhewitt.com/philosophy+architecture.html/

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