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page044from Building IdeasThis “renewal” of architecture, based on rational principles, was part of the same search for certainty that Descartes had inaugurated and, in response to Hegel’s prognosis of the death of the architect as artist, the engineer had now stepped forward to take over in this role. This was only one aspect of the reaction to Hegel’s challenge and another whole tradition will be considered in the following chapter. This will provide an alternative view of architecture and its status as a symbolic activity, with a meaningful place in society within a quite different philosophy of history – questioning the ideology of progress that drives the engine of technological innovation.
Suggestions for further reading Background George Basalla, The Evolution of Technology, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1988. René Descartes, Discourse on Method and The Meditations, translated by F. E. Sutcliffe, Penguin Books, London, 1968. G. W. F. Hegel, Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics, translated by Bernard Bosanquet, Penguin Books, London, 1993. G. W. F. Hegel, Reason in History: A General Introduction to the Philosophy of History, translated by R. S. Hartman, Library of Liberal Arts, New York, 1953. Lewis, Mumfor, Technics and Civilisation, Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, New York, 1963. Neil Postman, Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology, Vintage Books, New York, 1993. Peter Singer, Hegel, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1983. Foreground Reyner Banham, Theory and Design in the First Machine Age, Architecture Press, London, 1960. Le Corbusier, Towards a New Architecture translated by Frederick Etchells, Architectural Press, London, 1946.
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