The Architecture of Humanism - A Study in the History of TasteRead Books Ltd, 31.05.2013 - 274 Seiten The Architecture of Humanism offers a brilliant analysis of the theories and ideas behind much of nineteenth- and twentieth-century architecture. It discusses the classical tradition as reflected in the architecture of Renaissance and Baroque Italy and the role given the human body in that tradition. It is recommended reading for all architecture students, and essential for those interested in the revival of classical architecture. |
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... uses of mankind. And, immediately, politics and society, religion and ... purposes which they reflect. These, indeed, are two very different questions. The last makes ... æsthetic result, for it has to deal with a concrete basis which is ...
... uses of mankind. And, immediately, politics and society, religion and ... purposes which they reflect. These, indeed, are two very different questions. The last makes ... æsthetic result, for it has to deal with a concrete basis which is ...
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... æsthetic impulse has been embodied; how far, that is to say, the instincts ... æsthetic instincts, for which this instrument, restricted as it is, may furnish the ... use or by the moral impulse of its builders. This medley of elements ...
... æsthetic impulse has been embodied; how far, that is to say, the instincts ... æsthetic instincts, for which this instrument, restricted as it is, may furnish the ... use or by the moral impulse of its builders. This medley of elements ...
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... æsthetic. It has grown up around the practical needs of the race, and in ... reason that the practice of architecture has, of necessity, been neither ... uses the building is intended to serve'; 'it should faithfully state the facts of ...
... æsthetic. It has grown up around the practical needs of the race, and in ... reason that the practice of architecture has, of necessity, been neither ... uses the building is intended to serve'; 'it should faithfully state the facts of ...
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... æsthetic experience; for the aim of the arts has not been logic, but delight ... reason, prima facie, to suppose that there exists between them a ... æsthetics. Each could be rational, complete, and, within its own province, valid. Thus ...
... æsthetic experience; for the aim of the arts has not been logic, but delight ... reason, prima facie, to suppose that there exists between them a ... æsthetics. Each could be rational, complete, and, within its own province, valid. Thus ...
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... reason to conclude, may be studied as a result of practical needs shaped by structural principle; it must be studied as an æsthetic impulsion, controlled by æsthetic laws, and only by an æsthetic criticism to be finally justified or ...
... reason to conclude, may be studied as a result of practical needs shaped by structural principle; it must be studied as an æsthetic impulsion, controlled by æsthetic laws, and only by an æsthetic criticism to be finally justified or ...
Inhalt
NATURALISMAND THE PICTURESQUE | |
THE MECHANICAL FALLACY | |
THE ETHICAL FALLACY | |
THE BIOLOGICAL FALLACY | |
THE ACADEMIC TRADITION | |
HUMANIST VALUES | |
CONCLUSION | |
ANALYTIC SUMMARY | |
EPILOGUE 1924 | |
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