Li Shiqiao is Associate Professor in the Department of Architecture at the Chinese University of Hong Kong

• Introduction 1. Experimental Knowledge and the Use of Architecture 1.1. Knowledge for Power 1.2. Let Use be Preferred before Uniformity 1.3. Desiring to be Modern 2. The Political Use of Architecture: Magnificence, Divine Mysteries and Delight 2.1. Magnificence: Wren and the English Court 2.2. Divine Mysteries Set in Brick and Stone 2.3. Architectural Delight and Strangeness in the Proportion 3. The Sense Prior to Other Senses 3.1. Platonism in England 3.2. Virtue, Moral Sense and Taste 3.3. Faith in an Unsurpassable Past 4. The Virtuoso and the Second Maker 4.1. Shaftesbury's 'Science of Design' 4.2. Closterman, Matteis and Gribelin 4.3. Gardens and Architecture 5. Reconstituting Taste in Architecture 5.1. The Virtuosi 5.2. Defining Taste Through Critique

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Li Shiqiao is Associate Professor in the Department of Architecture at the Chinese University of Hong Kong

• Introduction 1. Experimental Knowledge and the Use of Architecture 1.1. Knowledge for Power 1.2. Let Use be Preferred before Uniformity 1.3. Desiring to be Modern 2. The Political Use of Architecture: Magnificence, Divine Mysteries and Delight 2.1. Magnificence: Wren and the English Court 2.2. Divine Mysteries Set in Brick and Stone 2.3. Architectural Delight and Strangeness in the Proportion 3. The Sense Prior to Other Senses 3.1. Platonism in England 3.2. Virtue, Moral Sense and Taste 3.3. Faith in an Unsurpassable Past 4. The Virtuoso and the Second Maker 4.1. Shaftesbury's 'Science of Design' 4.2. Closterman, Matteis and Gribelin 4.3. Gardens and Architecture 5. Reconstituting Taste in Architecture 5.1. The Virtuosi 5.2. Defining Taste Through Critique

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Li Shiqiao is Associate Professor in the Department of Architecture at the Chinese University of Hong Kong

• Introduction 1. Experimental Knowledge and the Use of Architecture 1.1. Knowledge for Power 1.2. Let Use be Preferred before Uniformity 1.3. Desiring to be Modern 2. The Political Use of Architecture: Magnificence, Divine Mysteries and Delight 2.1. Magnificence: Wren and the English Court 2.2. Divine Mysteries Set in Brick and Stone 2.3. Architectural Delight and Strangeness in the Proportion 3. The Sense Prior to Other Senses 3.1. Platonism in England 3.2. Virtue, Moral Sense and Taste 3.3. Faith in an Unsurpassable Past 4. The Virtuoso and the Second Maker 4.1. Shaftesbury's 'Science of Design' 4.2. Closterman, Matteis and Gribelin 4.3. Gardens and Architecture 5. Reconstituting Taste in Architecture 5.1. The Virtuosi 5.2. Defining Taste Through Critique

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