Public Lecture
Prof Karsten Harries
"Architecture's Need for an Environmental Aesthetics"
Date: Friday 13 March 2009,
Time: 11 am
Venue: Auditorium D, Faculty of Architecture, TU Delft
"If there is one overarching question that has guided my research, it is the question of the legitimacy and limits of that objectifying reason that presides over our science and technology and thus over the world we live in."
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Professor Karsten Harries is a noted scholar of Heidegger, early modern philosophy, and the philosophy of art and architecture. A member of Yale's faculty since 1961, he was named in 2006 as the first incumbent of the Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Professorship in Philosophy. Professor Harries has published more than 180 articles and five books, two of which received international commendation. The Bavarian Rococo Church: Between Faith and Aestheticism was runner-up for the prestigious Conféderation Internationale de Négociants en Oeuvres d'Art Award, and The Ethical Function of Architecture won the American Institute of Architects 8th Annual International Architecture Book Award for Criticism.
This Lecture is cosponsored by MoTiv | Center for development of spirituality in profession and business | www.motiv.tudelft.nl
