Aesthetic Theory : Essential Texts for Architecture and Design, Paperback by Gage, Mark Foster (EDT), ISBN 0393733491, ISBN-13 9780393733495, Brand New, Free P&P in the UK

In this anthology, Gage (Yale U. School of Architecture) compiles historic and contemporary readings relating design as a cultural construct in its aesthetic qualities and influences to large-scale/ spatial aspects of the built environment and all varieties of design. Chronologically ordered, individually introduced selections draw from philosophy (., Plato's Symposium); art history (Clive Bell's "Art"); architectural practice (Pollio's Ten Books on Architecture); literary criticism (Sontag's "On Style"); critical theory; Renaissance scholarship (G. Scott's The Architecture of Humanism); and cognitive neuroscience (F. Jamison's "Cognitive Mapping"). Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR ()