Developing the claim that contemporary architecture's main task is to interpret a way of life valid for our time, Karsten Harries asserts that architecture should serve a common ethos. Architecture, he claims, has a responsibility to community and he discusses the ethical implications.[...]
Much postmodern rhetoric, suggests Karsten Harries, can be understood as a symptom of our civilization's discontent, born of regret that we are no longer able to experience our world as a cosmos that assigns us our place. But dissatisfaction with the modern world may also spring from a conviction th[...]