Ayn Rand objectivism and architecture

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Özpek, Burak Bilgehan

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This study aims to uncover the relationship of the objectivist philosophy of Ayn Rand with architecture. After examining the philosophical bases of Randian objectivism, and how the philosophy is related to architecture via contemporary modernism, especially the modern architectural understanding of Frank Lloyd Wright, the study concentrates on how objectivism interprets architecture. The aim here is to describe what kind of an architectural aspect inspired Rand and how Rand used architecture in order to propagate her philosophy. Objectivist interpretations of architecture simply means how objectivism’s basic assumptions perceive and respond to architecture as revealed in Rand’s writings. In order to understan the architectural interpretations, the focus of analysis is the objectivist literature by Rand such as fictions, movies and articles. The resultant emphasis of the analysis on the relationship between Rand’s objectivism and architecture, is on the tension in architectural relations between the individual and the state, the individual and the society, and the individual and history, which are defined as against settled social and traditional values

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History of Scholarship and Learning., Humanities.

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http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12607813/index.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/15983

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Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis

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B. B. Özpek, “Ayn Rand objectivism and architecture,” M.A. - Master of Arts, Middle East Technical University, 2006.