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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... value, is barren also. It appears to me that if we desire any clearness in this matter, we are driven from a priori æsthetics to the history of taste, and from the history of taste to the history of ideas. It is, I believe, from a ...
... value, is barren also. It appears to me that if we desire any clearness in this matter, we are driven from a priori æsthetics to the history of taste, and from the history of taste to the history of ideas. It is, I believe, from a ...
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... value, then architecture will be judged by the exactness and sincerity with which it expresses constructive facts ... æsthetic result, for it has to deal with a concrete basis which is utilitarian. It is, none the less, a purely æsthetic ...
... value, then architecture will be judged by the exactness and sincerity with which it expresses constructive facts ... æsthetic result, for it has to deal with a concrete basis which is utilitarian. It is, none the less, a purely æsthetic ...
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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 ... value of these works of art, viewed in themselves or by comparison with one ...
... 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 ... value of these works of art, viewed in themselves or by comparison with one ...
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... æsthetic. It has grown up around the practical needs of the race, and in ... value in each province. Thus the three standards of architecture, united in ... æsthetic pleasures as have in fact been felt, and then to draw whatever.
... æsthetic. It has grown up around the practical needs of the race, and in ... value in each province. Thus the three standards of architecture, united in ... æsthetic pleasures as have in fact been felt, and then to draw whatever.
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... æsthetic experience; for the aim of the arts has not been logic, but delight. The theory of architecture, then, requires logic; but it requires, not less, an independent sense of beauty ... value as an art—may conceivably be found to consist ...
... æsthetic experience; for the aim of the arts has not been logic, but delight. The theory of architecture, then, requires logic; but it requires, not less, an independent sense of beauty ... value as an art—may conceivably be found to consist ...
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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