University of Isfahan Metaphysics 2476-3276 12 30 2020 09 22 Salingaros architecture in the mirror of Kant’s aesthetics Salingaros architecture in the mirror of Kant’s aesthetics 121 136 25618 10.22108/mph.2021.126843.1260 FA Javid Kazemi PhD student in Philosophy, Department of Philosophy Faculty of Humanities, Imam Khomeini International University, Iran Mohammad Raayat Jahromi Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy Faculty of Humanities, Imam Khomeini International University, Iran Journal Article 2021 01 06 According to architects such as Christopher Alexander and Nikos A. Salingaros, in architecture, there is no need to be so scrupulous in designing. Just based on mathematics, one can present a design or even build a city. Although Immanuel Kant wrote nothing but a few short lines about architecture, in his The Critique of the Power of Judgment, where he analyzes the power of aesthetics, points out that we need the genius to create an aesthetic object. That is to say, we need someone who creates the object based on novel ideas, not just pre-existing principles like mathematical ones. Those who build a new structure based on mathematics and imitate the scales hidden in nature are not geniuses. Nor is the structure of a work of art or an aesthetic object. If we enjoy confronting such structures, we cannot consider our judgment so general that includes others, that is, we cannot expect others to get that pleasure. What we claim here is "I get pleasure from looking at this structure". However, if we were confronted with the Beautiful we would claim "it is beautiful", while we were expecting everyone to realize it. Therefore, those mathematics-based structures must be considered as pleasant things, not beautiful things. We are not to evaluate different architectural styles; instead, we are just to offer a Kantian interpretation of the architectural viewpoints of Salingaros and the like. According to architects such as Christopher Alexander and Nikos A. Salingaros, in architecture, there is no need to be so scrupulous in designing. Just based on mathematics, one can present a design or even build a city. Although Immanuel Kant wrote nothing but a few short lines about architecture, in his The Critique of the Power of Judgment, where he analyzes the power of aesthetics, points out that we need the genius to create an aesthetic object. That is to say, we need someone who creates the object based on novel ideas, not just pre-existing principles like mathematical ones. Those who build a new structure based on mathematics and imitate the scales hidden in nature are not geniuses. Nor is the structure of a work of art or an aesthetic object. If we enjoy confronting such structures, we cannot consider our judgment so general that includes others, that is, we cannot expect others to get that pleasure. What we claim here is "I get pleasure from looking at this structure". However, if we were confronted with the Beautiful we would claim "it is beautiful", while we were expecting everyone to realize it. Therefore, those mathematics-based structures must be considered as pleasant things, not beautiful things. We are not to evaluate different architectural styles; instead, we are just to offer a Kantian interpretation of the architectural viewpoints of Salingaros and the like.

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