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SUMMARY:What’s so relative about beauty? Reading Claude Perrault’s Ord
 onnance des cinq espèces de colonnes (1683) / EDAR
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DESCRIPTION:Maarten Delbeke\nThis lecture is part of the course Bad Books 
 by Marson Korbi\, within The Doctoral Program of EDAR\, EPFL\n\nWhat’s s
 o relative about beauty? Reading Claude Perrault’s Ordonnance des cinq e
 spèces de colonnes (1683)\nPerrault’s Ordonnance is righlty famous fo
 r its discussion of architectural beauty as depending in what Perrault cal
 ls ‘relative’ reasons or causes: arguments depending on taste and cust
 om. This claim has had an extraordinary afterlife\, but it is still worth
  looking at it critically\, as it engages with matters of learning\, histo
 ricity\, and ultimately the questions of authority and power that stood at
  the core of the Querelle des anciens et des modernes. In this respect it
  is particularly instructive to read the Ordonnance against Claude’s b
 rother Charles Perrault’s Parallele des anciens et des modernes\, where
  the architectural ideas of the Ordonnance become building blocks for a 
 theory of culture.\n\nMaarten Delbeke holds the Chair of the History and T
 heory of Architecture at the Department of Architecture at ETH Zurich. H
 e researches and teaches the history and theory of art and architecture in
  Europe from the 17th century up to the present\, and is active as an arch
 itecture critic. 
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