Reviews for Managerial Accounting Ready Notes

The average rating for Managerial Accounting Ready Notes based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2014-03-14 00:00:00 Brandie Fowler The claim is that modern architecture was driven by a socialist dream, collectivist and anti traditional. The result was a style of building that is pragmatic, functional and mechanistic. “This denial of the role of the architect to raise our spirits, this view the what he does is not the result of education, taste, and imagination but that he is merely the vehicle through which a material problem is resolved with what Pugin calls a “natural” answer, is ultimately degrading in its “lowest common denominator” conception of man and his needs.” Page 103

Review # 2 was written on 2014-04-07 00:00:00 Richard Ardi The claim that a style can be evaluated in moral terms has played a significant role in modern architectural history. Watkin's book is a classic work on this theme, tracing the history of moral arguments in architecture beginning in the 19th century and critiquing the justification of stylistic choice based on moral criteria. The book certainly has a polemical tinge to it, rather than being a scholarly tome, which invites one to agree or disagree with Watkin's ideas. The book's central thesis, which basically argues that architectural style involves personal choice by the designer rather than only some sort of historical zeitgeist and always involves ornamentation regardless of claims to pure rationalism/functionalism, challenges a long tradition of architectural theory. Like it or not (for the most part I personally am with Watkin) this critique of a major impulse in modern architectural theory helped open up a healthy debate, which continues to shape how architecture is designed and understood today, and for that reason this short book is decidedly worth reading.