Abstract
With his interpretation of the Apollonian and Dionysian psychological states, Nietzsche was trying to correlate prominent dichotomies of his era - reason and instinct, science and metaphysic, experience and thinking, knowledge and inspiration, representation and unity, order and chaos. He was acting as a critic of the whole Western cultural output through these dualisms. This essay analyses a handful of Nietzsche's aphorisms that are directly or indirectly related to the art of a building. In them, Nietzsche was conjuring an idea of the new architecture that would oppose the ideal of the building in the 19thcentury: the architecture does not idealise, it is not a mere appearance, it is built in the spirit of its time, it makes us want to move into it and ultimately it is the architecture where beauty is not an end but a means to an end.
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