The Architecture of Humanism: A Study in the History of TasteConstable Limited, 1924 - 265 Seiten |
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... beauty is indispensable , while the element of constructive rationality is not . The construction of a building , it might conceivably be suggested , is simply a utilitarian necessity , and exists for art only as a basis or means for ...
... beauty is indispensable , while the element of constructive rationality is not . The construction of a building , it might conceivably be suggested , is simply a utilitarian necessity , and exists for art only as a basis or means for ...
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... beauty - the beauty of classic architecture , at any rate - consists in Order ? What higher or more perfect beauty , Plato asked , can exist , than mathematical beauty ? And the academic criticism , with its canon of mathematical ratios ...
... beauty - the beauty of classic architecture , at any rate - consists in Order ? What higher or more perfect beauty , Plato asked , can exist , than mathematical beauty ? And the academic criticism , with its canon of mathematical ratios ...
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... beauty , may follow in its wake . Yet Coherence in architecture , distinct though it is from beauty , has a function of its own . Humanised mass , space , and line are the basis of beauty , but coherence is the basis of style . Mass ...
... beauty , may follow in its wake . Yet Coherence in architecture , distinct though it is from beauty , has a function of its own . Humanised mass , space , and line are the basis of beauty , but coherence is the basis of style . Mass ...
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THE ROMANTIC FALLACY | 37 |
THE MECHANICAL FALLACY | 94 |
THE BIOLOGICAL FALLACY | 165 |
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