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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... Renaissance, I am indebted, as every student must always be indebted, primarily to Burckhardt. I have profited also by Wölfflin's Renaissance und Barock. To the friendship of Mr. Bernhard Berenson I owe a stimulus and encouragement ...
... Renaissance, I am indebted, as every student must always be indebted, primarily to Burckhardt. I have profited also by Wölfflin's Renaissance und Barock. To the friendship of Mr. Bernhard Berenson I owe a stimulus and encouragement ...
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... RENAISSANCE ARCHITECTURE THE ROMANTIC FALLACY THE ROMANTIC FALLACY (continued): NATURALISMAND THE PICTURESQUE THE MECHANICAL FALLACY V. THE ETHICAL FALLACY THE BIOLOGICAL FALLACY THE ACADEMIC TRADITION HUMANIST VALUES CONCLUSION ...
... RENAISSANCE ARCHITECTURE THE ROMANTIC FALLACY THE ROMANTIC FALLACY (continued): NATURALISMAND THE PICTURESQUE THE MECHANICAL FALLACY V. THE ETHICAL FALLACY THE BIOLOGICAL FALLACY THE ACADEMIC TRADITION HUMANIST VALUES CONCLUSION ...
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... architecture, then, requires logic; but it requires, not less, an ... architecture—its value as an art—may conceivably be found to consist in its firmness ... Renaissance architecture,' which originally denoted no more than the earlier ...
... architecture, then, requires logic; but it requires, not less, an ... architecture—its value as an art—may conceivably be found to consist in its firmness ... Renaissance architecture,' which originally denoted no more than the earlier ...
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... Renaissance architecture was native, that we shall follow this tradition. The architecture of France in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and, in a lesser degree, that of the Georgian period in England, might furnish brilliant ...
... Renaissance architecture was native, that we shall follow this tradition. The architecture of France in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and, in a lesser degree, that of the Georgian period in England, might furnish brilliant ...
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Geoffrey Scott. architectural tradition is to be recognised, and some estimate of it obtained that does not wholly misconstrue its idea, this ground of analysis must be consistently maintained. The architecture of the Renaissance, we ...
Geoffrey Scott. architectural tradition is to be recognised, and some estimate of it obtained that does not wholly misconstrue its idea, this ground of analysis must be consistently maintained. The architecture of the Renaissance, we ...
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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