A Nocturnal History of Architecture crafts Mads Bjørn Christansen and Emily

Mads Bjørn Christansen and Emily Priest

Timothy Hyde considers the role of aesthetic judgment—and its concern for ugliness—in architectural debates and their resulting social effects across three centuries of British architectural history

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A Nocturnal History of Architecture crafts Mads Bjørn Christansen and EmilyFor centuries, architectural theory, discourse, and agency have been based on diurnal and solar paradigms. References to the night in Vitruvius De architectura are residual; they are similarly scarce in the most influential Renaissance treatises by Alberti or Palladio. It was not until the nineteenth and twentieth centuries that the invention and institutionalization of electric light in private and public spaces gradually transformed the agency of