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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... 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 ANALYTIC SUMMARY EPILOGUE, 1924 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 ANALYTIC SUMMARY EPILOGUE, 1924 THE ...
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... ROMANTIC FALLACY THE Renaissance produced no theory. 1 e.g. in the Strozzi Palace many apparently vast blocks of stone are made up of shorter ones with concealed vertical joints. In the Cancelleria, conversely, long stones are made to ...
... ROMANTIC FALLACY THE Renaissance produced no theory. 1 e.g. in the Strozzi Palace many apparently vast blocks of stone are made up of shorter ones with concealed vertical joints. In the Cancelleria, conversely, long stones are made to ...
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Geoffrey Scott. CHAPTER. II. THE ROMANTIC FALLACY THE Renaissance produced no theory of architecture. It produced treatises on architecture: Fra Giocondo ... Romantic Movement, which, from being an enlargement of the poetic THE ROMANTIC ...
Geoffrey Scott. CHAPTER. II. THE ROMANTIC FALLACY THE Renaissance produced no theory of architecture. It produced treatises on architecture: Fra Giocondo ... Romantic Movement, which, from being an enlargement of the poetic THE ROMANTIC ...
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... romantic failure of his time—for the failure of the poetic fancy, unassisted, to achieve material style. It forms no part of our scheme to dwell upon the phases of the mediæval revival ... fallacy of Romanticism, then, and the gravest, is.
... romantic failure of his time—for the failure of the poetic fancy, unassisted, to achieve material style. It forms no part of our scheme to dwell upon the phases of the mediæval revival ... fallacy of Romanticism, then, and the gravest, is.
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Geoffrey Scott. The first fallacy of Romanticism, then, and the gravest, is to regard architecture as symbolic. Literature is powerful to invest with fascination any period of history on which its art is imaginatively expended. Under the ...
Geoffrey Scott. The first fallacy of Romanticism, then, and the gravest, is to regard architecture as symbolic. Literature is powerful to invest with fascination any period of history on which its art is imaginatively expended. Under the ...
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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