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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... architectural style, opposed in aim and contradictory in feeling, successively ... baroque, academic, rococo—may at their climax appear to be, yet, for the ... architects of France, amid their more favourable environment, to create a ...
... architectural style, opposed in aim and contradictory in feeling, successively ... baroque, academic, rococo—may at their climax appear to be, yet, for the ... architects of France, amid their more favourable environment, to create a ...
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... Renaissance architecture have sometimes been explained. When the CounterReformation made its bid for popularity, it erected on every hand churches in the baroque manner frankly calculated to delight the senses and kindle common ...
... Renaissance architecture have sometimes been explained. When the CounterReformation made its bid for popularity, it erected on every hand churches in the baroque manner frankly calculated to delight the senses and kindle common ...
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... baroque spirit delighted in this gay inconsequence. It appreciated grandeur for its own sake, æsthetically; and it had a sense of paradox. In Tuscany, on the other hand, though Cosimo had to rebuke the too lordly schemes of Brunelleschi ...
... baroque spirit delighted in this gay inconsequence. It appreciated grandeur for its own sake, æsthetically; and it had a sense of paradox. In Tuscany, on the other hand, though Cosimo had to rebuke the too lordly schemes of Brunelleschi ...
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... construction had been an exceptional remedy, was accepted by the Renaissance builders as an obvious and legitimate ... baroque architects of Rome desired a monumental and Cyclopean effect, they obtained it without the Florentines ...
... construction had been an exceptional remedy, was accepted by the Renaissance builders as an obvious and legitimate ... baroque architects of Rome desired a monumental and Cyclopean effect, they obtained it without the Florentines ...
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... baroque imagination, trained in painting to seek for soft transitions and broad shadow, began to require those qualities in architecture. Till then, travertine had been used, against its nature, in the Florentine tradition of sharp ...
... baroque imagination, trained in painting to seek for soft transitions and broad shadow, began to require those qualities in architecture. Till then, travertine had been used, against its nature, in the Florentine tradition of sharp ...
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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