Philip Bess

Philip Bess is a professor of architecture at The University of Notre Dame.

July 13, 2011
Sexuality & Family

July 13, 2011
Architecture & the Built Environment, Natural Law

A Realist Philosophical Case For Urbanism and Against Sprawl: Part Two

Arguments for traditional urbanism are de facto truth claims about nature and human nature, and point to and are supported by the natural law. Why we can and should think normatively about our building patterns. Part two of two.

July 11, 2011
Sexuality & Family

July 11, 2011
Architecture & the Built Environment, Natural Law

A Realist Philosophical Case For Urbanism and Against Sprawl: Part One

By Philip Bess

June 8, 2010
Education & Culture

June 8, 2010
Culture

Toward a Renewed Culture of Building

By Philip Bess

An adapted commencement address arguing that traditional building provides us with a durable and beautiful built environment, which in turn provides the best physical and spatial context for the inventiveness and daring that modern life demands.

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