# Nele De Raedt & Maarten Delbeke: Beauty, aesthetics.

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Published: 2026-02-06T11:13:48+00:00
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## Resource

For Episode 188 of the A is for Architecture Podcast, Nele De Raedt and Maarten Delbeke discuss some small parts of the 2025 book, Beauty in Architecture: Perspectives from Theory and Practice , which they edited and published with Bloomsbury. Beauty in Architecture connects ideas from across practice and theory that consider how beauty might again become central to architectural discourse. Beauty has re-emerged in public debate, but sadly it remains contested in critical discussions, often treated with suspicion – as an issue of politics, more or less. But, as we discuss, perhaps by taking beauty seriously, architecture might permit of – and articulate - broader reflections on values, identity, class, ecology and the notion of a shared cultural life. Nele is Associate Professor in History, Theory and Criticism of Architecture at the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium and is on LinkedIn and can be found on Instagram at her research group super_positions . Maarten is Professor in the History and Theory of Architecture at ETH Zürich in Switzerland and is on Instagram . The book is linked above. + Music credits: ⁠Bruno Gillick Photograph credit: Hong Wan Chan

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