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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... nature they are distinguished from each other by a deep and permanent disparity. The criticism of architecture has been confused in its process; it has built up strangely diverse theories of the art, and the verdicts it has pronounced ...
... nature they are distinguished from each other by a deep and permanent disparity. The criticism of architecture has been confused in its process; it has built up strangely diverse theories of the art, and the verdicts it has pronounced ...
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... Nature, unfortunately, would seem to unite these qualities with extreme reluctance. Obviously, there is room for confusion. The 'condition of delight' in architecture—its value as an art—may conceivably be found to consist in its ...
... Nature, unfortunately, would seem to unite these qualities with extreme reluctance. Obviously, there is room for confusion. The 'condition of delight' in architecture—its value as an art—may conceivably be found to consist in its ...
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... nature, selfdestructive and selfrenewing. We are confronted with a period of architecture at once daring and pedantic, and a succession of masters the orthodoxy of whose professions is often equalled only by the licence of their ...
... nature, selfdestructive and selfrenewing. We are confronted with a period of architecture at once daring and pedantic, and a succession of masters the orthodoxy of whose professions is often equalled only by the licence of their ...
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... nature of Augustan art, or of the art of Louis XIV., if we were to ignore this factor. But nothing similar is true of the Renaissance citystate. Here the conditions were merely such as to give free play to an architecture which ...
... nature of Augustan art, or of the art of Louis XIV., if we were to ignore this factor. But nothing similar is true of the Renaissance citystate. Here the conditions were merely such as to give free play to an architecture which ...
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... nature, and which was already, in the eyes of all men, an energy so vigorous and splendid, that the popes could conceive no securer means of adding to their fame than by inviting its support. So, too, with the more particular religious ...
... nature, and which was already, in the eyes of all men, an energy so vigorous and splendid, that the popes could conceive no securer means of adding to their fame than by inviting its support. So, too, with the more particular religious ...
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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