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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... appears to me that if we desire any clearness in this matter, we are driven from a priori æsthetics to the history of taste, and from the history of taste to the history of ideas. It is, I believe, from a failure to appreciate the true ...
... appears to me that if we desire any clearness in this matter, we are driven from a priori æsthetics to the history of taste, and from the history of taste to the history of ideas. It is, I believe, from a failure to appreciate the true ...
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... 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 architecture, to be read consecutively ...
... 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 architecture, to be read consecutively ...
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... appear, at first sight, to be as confused in aim as it was fertile in invention. Contrast it with the cumulative labour, the intensive concentration, by which the idea of Greek architecture, ever reiterated, was sharpened to its ...
... appear, at first sight, to be as confused in aim as it was fertile in invention. Contrast it with the cumulative labour, the intensive concentration, by which the idea of Greek architecture, ever reiterated, was sharpened to its ...
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... appear to have furnished the large idea to which the new classic architecture might stand in service. But we must not overlook the extent to which the papacy was itself indebted, for that quality, to the artists of the Renaissance. It ...
... appear to have furnished the large idea to which the new classic architecture might stand in service. But we must not overlook the extent to which the papacy was itself indebted, for that quality, to the artists of the Renaissance. It ...
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... long stones are made to appear shorter than they are, by 'joints,' which are in reality only channels on the surface. In both cases the purpose is to maintain 'scale'; the unit of design, that is to say, is not material but æsthetic.
... long stones are made to appear shorter than they are, by 'joints,' which are in reality only channels on the surface. In both cases the purpose is to maintain 'scale'; the unit of design, that is to say, is not material but æsthetic.
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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