{"product_id":"ugliness-and-judgment-by-timothy-hyde-9780691179162","title":"Ugliness and Judgment","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA novel interpretation of architecture, ugliness, and the social consequences of aesthetic judgment. When buildings are deemed ugly, what are the consequences? In \u003cem\u003eUgliness and Judgment\u003c\/em\u003e, Timothy Hyde considers the role of aesthetic judgment—and its concern for ugliness—in architectural debates and their resulting social effects across three centuries of British architectural history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom eighteenth-century ideas about Stonehenge to Prince Charles's opinions about the National Gallery, Hyde uncovers a new story of aesthetic judgment, where arguments about architectural ugliness do not pertain solely to buildings or assessments of style, but intrude into other spheres of civil society.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHyde explores how accidental and willful conditions of ugliness—including the gothic revival Houses of Parliament, the brutalist concrete of the South Bank, and the historicist novelty of Number One Poultry—have been debated in parliamentary committees, courtrooms, and public inquiries. He recounts how architects such as Christopher Wren, John Soane, James Stirling, and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe have been summoned by tribunals of aesthetic judgment.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith his novel scrutiny of lawsuits for libel, changing paradigms of nuisance law, and conventions of monarchical privilege, he shows how aesthetic judgments have become entangled in wider assessments of art, science, religion, political economy, and the state.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMoving beyond superficialities of taste in order to see how architectural improprieties enable architecture to participate in social transformations, \u003cem\u003eUgliness and Judgment\u003c\/em\u003e sheds new light on the role of aesthetic measurement in our world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47601012801772,"sku":"9780691179162","price":89.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9b5ad1178e1bc953bb4c56e67051232a.jpg?v=1778019032","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/ugliness-and-judgment-by-timothy-hyde-9780691179162","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}