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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... Gothic movement, by which, four hundred years later, they were eclipsed. The old mediævalism, and the new, mark the boundaries of our subject. At no point in the four centuries which intervened does any line of cleavage occur as ...
... Gothic movement, by which, four hundred years later, they were eclipsed. The old mediævalism, and the new, mark the boundaries of our subject. At no point in the four centuries which intervened does any line of cleavage occur as ...
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... Gothic had indeed been equally rapid, and equally oblivious of its past, so rapid and so oblivious that few of its principal buildings were completed in the style in which they were begun. Nevertheless it pursued one undeviating course ...
... Gothic had indeed been equally rapid, and equally oblivious of its past, so rapid and so oblivious that few of its principal buildings were completed in the style in which they were begun. Nevertheless it pursued one undeviating course ...
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... Gothic church to be converted into the equivalent of a pagan temple dedicated to his mistress, and flanked it with the entombed bones of Greek philosophers and grammarians, may well impress us with his individuality; but, as between him ...
... Gothic church to be converted into the equivalent of a pagan temple dedicated to his mistress, and flanked it with the entombed bones of Greek philosophers and grammarians, may well impress us with his individuality; but, as between him ...
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... Gothic; and so it might be with some future architecture of steel. But such was not the case with the architecture of the Italian Renaissance. No constructive innovation explains the course which it pursued. The dome of Brunelleschi ...
... Gothic; and so it might be with some future architecture of steel. But such was not the case with the architecture of the Italian Renaissance. No constructive innovation explains the course which it pursued. The dome of Brunelleschi ...
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Geoffrey Scott. This was an expedient by no means unknown to the Gothic builders. But what in mediæval construction had been an exceptional remedy, was accepted by the Renaissance builders as an obvious and legitimate resource. There was ...
Geoffrey Scott. This was an expedient by no means unknown to the Gothic builders. But what in mediæval construction had been an exceptional remedy, was accepted by the Renaissance builders as an obvious and legitimate resource. There was ...
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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