The Architecture of Humanism: A Study in the History of TasteConstable Limited, 1924 - 265 Seiten |
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... mass in all these particulars . The sweeping movement suggested by the continuous horizontal curve of the Grand Canal is brought to rest by the static mass of the church that stands like its gate upon the sea . The lines of the dome ...
... mass in all these particulars . The sweeping movement suggested by the continuous horizontal curve of the Grand Canal is brought to rest by the static mass of the church that stands like its gate upon the sea . The lines of the dome ...
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... mass , and the power of mass to give essential simplicity and dignity even to the richest and most fantastic dreams of the baroque . In architecture , then , the principal conditions of mass are these . In the first place the effect of ...
... mass , and the power of mass to give essential simplicity and dignity even to the richest and most fantastic dreams of the baroque . In architecture , then , the principal conditions of mass are these . In the first place the effect of ...
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... mass , and largeness . On the other hand , a building which looks big may fail to convey a feeling of bigness . No one , for instance , looking at the new Museum at South Kensington , could fail to realise that its dimen- sions are vast ...
... mass , and largeness . On the other hand , a building which looks big may fail to convey a feeling of bigness . No one , for instance , looking at the new Museum at South Kensington , could fail to realise that its dimen- sions are vast ...
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THE ROMANTIC FALLACY | 37 |
THE MECHANICAL FALLACY | 94 |
THE BIOLOGICAL FALLACY | 165 |
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