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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... chapter of that history. It deals with a limited period of architecture, from a single point of view. The period is one which presents a certain obvious unity. It extends from the revival of classical forms at the hands of Brunelleschi ...
... chapter of that history. It deals with a limited period of architecture, from a single point of view. The period is one which presents a certain obvious unity. It extends from the revival of classical forms at the hands of Brunelleschi ...
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... chapter in architecture, to be read consecutively and as a whole. But at the two moments with which our study begins and ends, the sequence of architecture is radically cleft. The building of the Pazzi Chapel in Florence marks a clear ...
... chapter in architecture, to be read consecutively and as a whole. But at the two moments with which our study begins and ends, the sequence of architecture is radically cleft. The building of the Pazzi Chapel in Florence marks a clear ...
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... CHAPTER I RENAISSANCE ARCHITECTURE THE architecture of Europe, in the. 1 Sir Henry Wotton, Elements of Architecture. He is adapting Vitruvius, Bk. 1, chap. iii. 1 e.g. in the Strozzi Palace many apparently vast blocks.
... CHAPTER I RENAISSANCE ARCHITECTURE THE architecture of Europe, in the. 1 Sir Henry Wotton, Elements of Architecture. He is adapting Vitruvius, Bk. 1, chap. iii. 1 e.g. in the Strozzi Palace many apparently vast blocks.
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Geoffrey Scott. CHAPTER. I. RENAISSANCE ARCHITECTURE THE architecture of Europe, in the centuries during which our civilisation was under the sway of classical prestige, passed in a continuous succession through phases of extraordinary ...
Geoffrey Scott. CHAPTER. I. RENAISSANCE ARCHITECTURE THE architecture of Europe, in the centuries during which our civilisation was under the sway of classical prestige, passed in a continuous succession through phases of extraordinary ...
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... chapter. Here we may notice it merely as a confirmation of our statement, that it was not from any new constructive interest that the impulse of the Renaissance style was derived, or its progress defined. On the contrary, it is ...
... chapter. Here we may notice it merely as a confirmation of our statement, that it was not from any new constructive interest that the impulse of the Renaissance style was derived, or its progress defined. On the contrary, it is ...
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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