The sthetics of Modern Architecture

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The Æsthetics of Modern Architecture

• D. A. Hewitt Kings College London MPhil
  Philosophy 2006

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Bill Brandt Top Withens (1945)
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Chamberlin, Powell Bon Barbican (1964-82)
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St. Bernard Dog
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John Nash (1825-35), Edward Blore (East Wing)
(1847-50), and Sir Aston Webb (re-facing and
re-design of East Wing) (1913) Buckingham Palace
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Sir Terry Farrell MI6 Headquarters (1988-93)
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Sir Terry Farrell Charing Cross Station (1987-90)
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Grays Inn
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Sir William Chambers Somerset House (1776-1801)
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Michael Craig Martin An Oak Tree (1973)
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The K Foundation Watch the K Foundation Burn a
Million Quid (1994-97)
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Minoru Yamasaki Pruitt-Igoe Housing Scheme
(1952-55) (Demolished 1972)
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Pruitt-Igoe corridor
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Foster Partners Reichstag renovation (1992-99)
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Le Corbusier A Contemporary City (1929)
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Le Corbusier A Contemporary City (1929)
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Richard Rogers, planning for mixed use
developments (1997)
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Richard Rogers polycentric sustainable urban
development (1997)
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Le Corbusier Villa Stein (1927)
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Le Corbusier Villa Savoye (1928-29)
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Villa Savoye interior
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Richard Rogers Renzo Piano Centre Georges
Pompidou (1971-77)
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Rem Koolhaas (Office for Metropolitan
Architecture) Casa da Música (1999-2005)
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English Tudor building, Chester
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Classical Colonnade Stoa of Attalos, Athens
(159-138 BC)
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Gothic architecture Westminster Abbey
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Poundbury (begun 1988)
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Poundbury
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Sir Denys Lasdun National Theatre (1967-76)
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Quinlan Francis Terry Architects Howard
Building, Downing College, Cambridge (1985-89)
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Raphael St. George and the Dragon (1505-07)
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Bridget Riley (1961 1964)
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Piet Mondrian Composition with Yellow Patch (1930)
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Carl Andre Equivalent VIII (1966)
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Oriental Calligraphy
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Phidias, Ictinus Callicrates Parthenon (437-433
BC)
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Coliseum (c. 70 AD)
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Andrea Palladio Villa Capra, La Rotunda (begun
c. 1570)
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Chartres Cathedral, window interior (1194-1260)
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Louis H. Sullivan Prudential Building (now
Guaranty Building) (1894)
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Louis H. Sullivan Wainwright Building (1896)
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Wainwright Building, detail
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Louis H. Sullivan National Farmers Bank,
Owatonna (1908)
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Bell Ross BR-01 Instrument
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Bell Ross Type Marine Professional
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Karl Friedrich Schinkel, two proposals for
Werdersche Kirche, Berlin
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Dray Horse
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Frank Lloyd Wright La Miniatura (1922-23)
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Frank Lloyd Wright Fallingwater (1935-39)
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Sir Christopher Wren St. Pauls Cathedral
(1675-1708)
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Sir Charles Barry A. W. N. Pugin Palace of
Westminster (1837-52)
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Richard Rogers Partnership Millennium Dome
(1996-99)
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Foster Partners 30 St. Mary Axe (1997-2004)
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Santiago Calatrava Alamillo Bridge, Seville
(1987-92)
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Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi Statue of Liberty
(1884-86), pedestal by Richard Morris Hunt (1885)
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Michael Landy Semi-detached (2004)
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I. M. Pei Louvre Pyramid (1983-89)
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Alison Peter Smithson Economist Building
(1959-65)
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Foster Partners HSBC Headquarters (1979-86)
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Richard Rogers Partnership Lloyds Building
(1978-86)
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Bedford Square
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Michaelangelo David (1501-04)
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David, detail
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Inter alia quoins, pilasters and Acanthus leaf
mouldings
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Gothic tracery and fan vaulting, Bath Abbey
(completed c. 1156)
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Sir Richard Westmacott The Rise of Civilisation
(1852)
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Sir Robert Smirke British Museum (1852)
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Cruciform church plans
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Pointed arches, Westminster Abbey
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Sex symbol
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Sex symbol
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David Hume (1711-76)
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Contemporary Savile Row suit
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Antony Gormley Angel of the North (1998)
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Henri Labrouste Bibliothèque Ste. Geneviève (1843)
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Santiago Calatrava Lyons Airport Railway Station
(1989-94)
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Donald Judd Untitled (1990)
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Antony Gormley Post (1993)
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Many of the above images each derive from a
different source. All images have been edited in
some respect by Daniel Hewitt (e.g. by cropping,
or by modifying the contrast, colour balance,
resolution, etc.). A list of photo credits can be
found at http//danielhewitt.com/philosophyarchit
ecture.html/