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Aesthetics and Beauty

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The word aesthetics comes from Greek and means perception. Aesthetics entails the investigation in the broadest sense of the way in which the environment is perceived and of the individual’s position within this environment.

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Grütter, J. (2020). Aesthetics and Beauty. In: Basics of Perception in Architecture. Springer Vieweg, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-31156-8_8

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