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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... academic' and studiously indifferent to these factors. It must, we are told, be symmetrical, or it must be picturesque—that is, above all things, unsymmetrical. It must be 'traditional' and 'scholarly,' that is, resembling what has ...
... academic' and studiously indifferent to these factors. It must, we are told, be symmetrical, or it must be picturesque—that is, above all things, unsymmetrical. It must be 'traditional' and 'scholarly,' that is, resembling what has ...
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... FALLACY V. THE ETHICAL FALLACY THE BIOLOGICAL FALLACY THE ACADEMIC TRADITION HUMANIST VALUES CONCLUSION ANALYTIC SUMMARY EPILOGUE, 1924 THE ARCHITECTURE OF HUMANISM INTRODUCTION 'WELLBUILDING hath three conditions: Commodity,
... FALLACY V. THE ETHICAL FALLACY THE BIOLOGICAL FALLACY THE ACADEMIC TRADITION HUMANIST VALUES CONCLUSION ANALYTIC SUMMARY EPILOGUE, 1924 THE ARCHITECTURE OF HUMANISM INTRODUCTION 'WELLBUILDING hath three conditions: Commodity,
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... academic, rococo—may at their climax appear to be, yet, for the most part, they grew from one another by gradual transitions. The margins which divide them are curiously difficult to define. They form, in fact, a complete chapter in ...
... academic, rococo—may at their climax appear to be, yet, for the most part, they grew from one another by gradual transitions. The margins which divide them are curiously difficult to define. They form, in fact, a complete chapter in ...
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... academic and too set, for an age when creative vigour was still, beyond measure, turbulent. With that turbulence no art that was not rapid and pictorial in its appeal could now keep pace. The time was past when an architecture of such ...
... academic and too set, for an age when creative vigour was still, beyond measure, turbulent. With that turbulence no art that was not rapid and pictorial in its appeal could now keep pace. The time was past when an architecture of such ...
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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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