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This utopian thought that everything should be beautiful is seemingly simple to prove. But if everything was beautiful, what would the rest be? Again, you have to start with the words of a philosopher far from simplicity. We can start with Friedrich Schiller’s contradictory statement that “Beauty (...) is a form that does not require any explanation, or is a form that can be explained without concepts.” For an architect detached from any explanation of the philosophers it can be difficult. However, we would like t...

The subject of all architectural and urban forms is man, an individual, who is the constituent element of society. Societies create metropolises, residing in them, working and resting. This is why the quality of a society determines, in all probability, all the other qualities that serve these purposes, including the quality of the geographic and social environment. Beauty is induced by a free, self-governing society and makes itself evident in respect towards man by his abiding of the laws that govern it, and at ...