Assignment: Discussion Board #3
Feb 8-14 Assignment: Journal Entry #2: Truth (Due by February 12 @ midnight)
THEME #3 Meaning
Week of Feb 15-21
Module 4: Meaning: The Modern period is defined as moving away from mysticism and using doubt as a tool for acquiring knowledge; defining architecture and it’s rules for judgment; body metaphors, introduction of relative priorities; mechanics as the source of meaning; challenging tradition as a source of meaning; taste and the crisis of meaning; application of Cartesian categories to address truth in the arts; move to the imaginative rather than imitative (Classical to Romantic); Kant, meaning and genius
Readings: Mitrović, Philosophy for Architects, 62-71
Poe, The Philosophy of Composition (PDF)