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Architecture as Art Aesthetics in Philosophy The philosophy of history set out in Chapter 1 produced a powerful myth of progress that caused a rift in the culture of architecture. From the view that science will eventually explain all natural phenomena, and new technologies will evolve to cater for all our needs, came the reduction of the design of buildings to a sub-branch of engineering – controlled not by individuals but by economic and physical forces. This deterministic view of architecture, which submits design to a “scientific” methodology was part of a general search for certainty and respectability in the age of reason. From ideas like Viollet-le-Duc’s great principle of the application of reason to the satisfaction of needs grew the belief that good buildings would come about “automatically” – providing the requirements were analysed correctly and the appropriate technologies and materials were chosen. The critique of this ”master-narrative” of enlightenment rationality has recently become a major feature of the philosophy of post-modernity. Historically, however, an alternative position can be identified, which supports the status of architecture as a cultural, not merely a technical, activity. The distinction turns on the status of art itself, in a society seemingly dominated by scientific rationality, and involves a questioning of the view that science provides the only “true” description of reality. Art was considered to be redundant in Hegel’s system of ideas, because it no longer seemed to contribute to the
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