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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... Romanticism may be said to consist in a high development of poetic sensibility towards the remote, as such. It ... romanticism is not favourable to plastic form. It is too much concerned with the vague and the remembered to find its ...
... Romanticism may be said to consist in a high development of poetic sensibility towards the remote, as such. It ... romanticism is not favourable to plastic form. It is too much concerned with the vague and the remembered to find its ...
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... and the architect, with nothing but his scholarship, set out to restore a style that had never been scholarly. The purpose of romanticism should have been the fusion of a poetical interest with the forms and principles of an existing art.
... and the architect, with nothing but his scholarship, set out to restore a style that had never been scholarly. The purpose of romanticism should have been the fusion of a poetical interest with the forms and principles of an existing art.
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... romanticism, and the point at which it overweighs the sense of form. Up to the middle of the eighteenth century the mediæval style merely spelt discomfort, desolation, and gloom.1 Noble owners, so far as their purse allowed, converted ...
... romanticism, and the point at which it overweighs the sense of form. Up to the middle of the eighteenth century the mediæval style merely spelt discomfort, desolation, and gloom.1 Noble owners, so far as their purse allowed, converted ...
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... romanticism) which were destined to drive these noble patrons, their philosophy and their enlightenment, entirely out of existence. Side by side with this sense of Gothic as an amusing exotic—an attitude which was thoroughly in the ...
... romanticism) which were destined to drive these noble patrons, their philosophy and their enlightenment, entirely out of existence. Side by side with this sense of Gothic as an amusing exotic—an attitude which was thoroughly in the ...
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... from architecture, still lingers in its criticism. The Gothic revival is past, while the romantic prejudices that engendered it remain. And these it is important to define. The first fallacy of Romanticism, then, and the gravest, is.
... from architecture, still lingers in its criticism. The Gothic revival is past, while the romantic prejudices that engendered it remain. And these it is important to define. The first fallacy of Romanticism, then, and the gravest, 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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