2024-12-22T14:38:20-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/118817793/susan-sontag-on-beauty-vs-interestingness Orhan Ayyüce 2015-01-20T18:52:00-05:00 >2022-03-16T09:10:02-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/ph/ph5qkd9ljasfuqlk.png?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>The perennial tendency to make of beauty itself a binary concept, to split it up into &ldquo;inner&rdquo; and &ldquo;outer,&rdquo; &ldquo;higher&rdquo; and &ldquo;lower&rdquo; beauty, is the usual way that judgments of the beautiful are colonized by moral judgments.</p></em><br /><br /><p>Susan Sontag would have been 82 years old this week. Here is a link to some of her illuminating writings as pointed by Maria Popova. We could use some of these ideas applying them to architecture as we, hopefully, move towards more "interesting" criticism after a period of sling-shotting and targeting the walls of the obvious.</p>