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Their wordsThis paper argues that the characterization of beauty as subjective or irrational is fallacious, and that the abandonment of the category is a grave mistake that impoverishes architectural discourse and practice.
Their wordsThe premise that beauty stands opposed to utility in the sense of an unavoidable trade-off, although a wide-spread assumption, is a fundamental fallacy that plagues our discipline.
Their wordsThe core thesis put forward in this essay is therefore that our sense of beauty, our being drawn towards the beautiful, is our conditioned, intuitive way to recognize and choose the useful.
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