ABSTRACT
The beautiful and the sublime are similar as they both please architectural thinkers 'for their own sake'; thinkers are 'disinterested' when they experience them, being neither dependent on sensations of agreeableness or concepts of what is good. This chapter examines that 'utopianism' comes into play with Immanuel Kant's notion of the sublime and that it can indirectly contribute to what architectural thinkers conceive of as possible and ecologically, cosmopolitically desirable in architecture. Architecture can create an all-round effect that can sometimes border on the oppressive. Despite never have left Königsberg, he has probably read travel literature about St. Peter's describing the almost overwhelming intensity of the emotions that the overall effect of one's entering the building can cause. His account of the vicarious experience would suggest that, contrary to Savary's analysis of the pyramids, there is no 'correct' point to be sought from which to view a building.
