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Selected Bibliography
- Alberti, Leon Battista. On the Art of Building: In Ten Books, trans. Joseph Rykwert, Neil Leach, and Robert Tavernor. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1991.
- Aristotle. “Eudemian Ethics.” In The Complete Works of Aristotle, ed. Jonathan Barnes, 1922–82. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1995.
- Bell, Clive. “The Aesthetic Hypothesis.” In Art, 3–37. 1914; repr., London, Jefferson Publication, 2015.
- Carson, Allen. Aesthetics and the Environment: Art and Architecture. New York: Routledge, 2000.
- Corbusier, Le. Towards a New Architecture. San Diego: Brewer, Warren & Putnam, 2014.
- Dickie, George. “The New Institutional Theory of Art.” In Proceedings of the 8th Wittgenstein Symposium 10 (1983), 57–64.
- Durant, Will. The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the Great Philosophers of the Western World. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1961.
- Fuksas, Massimiliano. Less Aesthetics More Ethics: The 7th International Venice Architectural Architecture. New York: Rizzoli, 2000.
- Gage, Mark Foster. Aesthetics Equals Politics: New Discourses across Art, Architecture, and Philosophy. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2019.
- Gage, Mark Foster. Aesthetic Theory: Essential Texts. New York: Norton, 2011.
- Gage, Mark Foster. Designing Social Equality: Architecture, Aesthetics, and the Perception of Democracy. New York: Routledge, 2019.
- Gage, Mark Foster, and Joshua Prince Ramus. “You Are Playing a Fools Game: A Public Exchange between Mark Foster Gage and Joshua Prince-Ramus on Museum Plaza and Beauty.” Perspecta 40 (October 7, 2007): 102–3.
- Gage, Mark Foster. “East of Reality: On the Granular Perception of Architecture.” PLAT Journal, no. 9 (2020).
- Gage, Mark Foster. “Speculation vs. Indifference.” Log: Contemporary Observations on the City, no. 40 (2017).
- Gaskell, Ivan. “Works of Art and Mere Real Things—Again.” British Journal of Aesthetics 60, no. 2 (April 20, 2020): 131–49.
- Hanslick, Eduard. Eduard Hanslick’s “On the Musically Beautiful”: A New Translation. Trans. Lee A. Rothfarb. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018.
- Hays, K. Michael. Introduction to Architecture Theory since 1968. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1998.
- Hill, Richard. Designs and Their Consequences: Architecture and Aesthetics. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1999.
- Hopkins, Robert, and Nick Riggle. “Artistic Style as the Expression of Ideals.” Philosophers’ Imprint 21, no. 8 (May 2021): 1–18.
- Huljich, Georgina, and Marcelo Spina. Matters of Sensation: Exhibition Catalog. New York: Artists Space, 2008.
- Kant, Immanuel. The Critique of Judgement. Trans. James Creed Meredith. Oxford: A & D Publishing, 2018.
- Koolhaas, Rem. “Seattle Central Library: Project Description.” Office for Metropolitan Architecture, https://www.oma.com/projects/seattle-central-library.
- Lamarque, Peter, and Stein Haugom Olsen. “Introduction.” In Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art the Analytic Tradition: An Anthology. Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley Blackwell, 2019.
- Levinson, Jerrold. The Pleasures of Aesthetics: Philosophical Essays. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1996.
- Macey, David. The Penguin Dictionary of Critical Theory London: Penguin, 2001.
- Mitrović, Branko. “Aesthetic Formalism in Renaissance Architectural Theory.” Zeitschrift Für Kunstgeschichte 66, no. 3 (2003): 321.
- Muschamp, Herbert. “The Library That Puts on Fishnets and Hits the Disco.” New York Times, May 16, 2004: 1–3.
- Pedersen, Martin, and Steven Bingler. “How to Rebuild Architecture.” New York Times, December 14, 2014: https://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/16/opinion/how-to-rebuild-architecture.html.
- Penrose, Francis C. Investigation of the Principles of Athenian Architecture: The Results of a Survey Conducted Chiefly with Reference to the Optical Refinements Exhibited in the Construction of the Ancient Buildings at Athens, 2nd ed. Washington D.C.: McGrath, 1973.
- Plato. The Republic. Trans. C. J. Emlyn-Jones and William Preddy. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2013.
- Roberts, Tom. “Aesthetic Virtues: Traits and Faculties.” Philosophical Studies 175, no. 2 (2017): 429–47.
- Ruy, David. “Returning to (Strange) Objects.” Southern California Institute for Architecture: 2013 Public Lecture Series. January 30, 2013. W. M. Keck Lecture Hall. Los Angeles, California.
- Saito, Yuriko. Aesthetics of the Familiar: Everyday Life and World-Making. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019.
- Saito, Yuriko. Everyday Aesthetics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.
- Scott, Geoffrey. The Architecture of Humanism: A Study in the History of Taste. New York City: Franklin Classics, 2018.
- Scruton, Roger. The Aesthetics of Architecture. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2013.
- Shaviro, Steven. Discognition. UK: Repeater, 2016.
- Shelley, James. “The Default Theory of Aesthetic Value.” The British Journal of Aesthetics 59, no. 1 (2018): 1–12.
- Shubow, Justin. “Architecture Continues to Implode: More Insiders Admit the Profession Is Failing.” Forbes, January 9, 2015: https://www.forbes.com/sites/justinshubow/2015/01/06/architecture-continues-to-implode-more-insiders-admit-the-profession-is-failing/?sh=663c8d094378.
- United Nations. Revision of World Urbanization Prospects Produced by the Population Division of the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA). Current database. https://www.un.org/en/desa/2018-revision-world-urbanization-prospects#:~:text=The%202018%20Revision%20of%20World,in%20just%20a%20few%20countries.
- Vasari, Giorgio, Betty Burroughs, and Jonathan Foster. Vasari’s Lives of the Artists: Biographies of the Most Eminent Architects, Painters, and Sculptors of Italy. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1946.
- Weitz, Morris. “The Role of Theory in Aesthetics.” Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 15, no. 1: 27–35.
- Wilson, Alan T. “The Virtue of Aesthetic Courage.” British Journal of Aesthetics 60, no. 4 (2020): 455–69.
- Young, Michael. “Fear of the Mediated Image.” Cornell Journal of Architecture, no. 11 (August 25, 2020): 146–61.
- Zangwill, Nick. Aesthetic Creation. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.
- Zangwill, Nick. “In Defence of Moderate Aesthetic Formalism.” The Philosophical Quarterly (1950–) 50, no. 201. (2000): 476–93.
- Zangwill, Nick. The Metaphysics of Beauty. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2001.
- Zeki, Semir. “Clive Bell’s ‘Significant Form’ and the Neurobiology of Aesthetics.” In Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, U.S. National Library of Medicine 7, Article 730 (November 12, 2013): 1–14.