Architectural Humanities in Progress: Divulging Epistemology, Ethics, and Aesthetics of the Built Environment and Habitation

Introduction.- Part 1: Towards phenomenology of the built environment.- Chapter 1. Theory of the Built Environment: After and beyond Platonism.- Chapter 2. Nietzsche and Anti-Metaphysics: Overturning platonism on aesthetic theory.- Chapter 3. On the phenomenological way of seeing and thinking on the built environment.- Chapter 4. The ontology of making: Being and building.- Chapter 5. The poetics of the built environment.- Part 2. The cases: Sustainability, home, design, ethics and aesthetics.- Chapter 6. Aristotle and the Doctrine of Aitia: A theoretical exploration of environmental design and sustainability.- Chapter 7. The ontology of home: Recollection and retreat.- Chapter 8. The ontology of design: A project of building and dwelling.- Chapter 9. Sustainability and the built environment: The search for ethics based on environmental awareness and social responsibility.- Chapter 10. Kant's common good: A potential unity of aesthetics and the ethics for a sustainable culture.- Epilogue.