Formalism around 1800: A Grudging Concession to Aesthetic Sensibility

Abstract

This paper compares the outwardly similar structural formalisms of Marc- Antoine Laugier and Arthur Schopenhauer (who uses many of Laugier’s examples). Laugier purports to base his aesthetics on an historical argument from the “primitive hut”; but his preferences are really based on aversion to structurally and programmatically non-functional elements. His preferences show disregard for purely aesthetic considerations, such as pleasing proportions. Schopenhauer’s formalism is based on his cognitivist approach to aesthetics, according to which architecture is above all supposed to demonstrate relations between load and support, but in spite of this shows greater sensitivity to sensory beauty.

Ovaj članak poredi naizgled sličan strukturalni formalizam Mark-Antoan Ložijea i Artura Šo-penhauera (koji je koristio mnoge Ložijeove primere). Ložije zasniva svoju estetiku na istorij-skom argumentu polazeći od „primitivne kolibe“, ali njegove preferenciju su ipak zasnovane na averziji prema strukturalno i programski nefunkcionalnim elementima. One otkrivaju ne-haj za razmatranja koja su čisto estetska, kao što su to proporcije koje izazivaju zadovoljstvo. Šopenhauerov formalizam zasniva se na njegovom kognitivističkom pristupu estetici prema kome bi arhitektura, pre svega, trebalo da demonstrira odnos između opterećenja i oslonca, ali uprkos tome pokazuje veću osetljivost za čulnu lepotu.