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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... century, to the rise of the Gothic movement, by which, four hundred years later, they were eclipsed. The old mediævalism, and the new, mark the boundaries of our subject. At no point in the four centuries which intervened does any line ...
... century, to the rise of the Gothic movement, by which, four hundred years later, they were eclipsed. The old mediævalism, and the new, mark the boundaries of our subject. At no point in the four centuries which intervened does any line ...
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... century traditionalism itself was cast aside. It is in Italy, where Renaissance architecture was native, that we shall follow this tradition. The architecture of France in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and, in a lesser degree ...
... century traditionalism itself was cast aside. It is in Italy, where Renaissance architecture was native, that we shall follow this tradition. The architecture of France in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and, in a lesser degree ...
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Geoffrey Scott. CHAPTER. I. RENAISSANCE ARCHITECTURE THE architecture of Europe, in the centuries during which our civilisation was under the sway of classical prestige, passed in a continuous succession through phases of extraordinary ...
Geoffrey Scott. CHAPTER. I. RENAISSANCE ARCHITECTURE THE architecture of Europe, in the centuries during which our civilisation was under the sway of classical prestige, passed in a continuous succession through phases of extraordinary ...
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... century, corresponded to no racial movements; they were unaccompanied by social changes equally sudden, or equally complete; they were undictated, for the most part, by any exterior necessity; they were unheralded by any new or ...
... century, corresponded to no racial movements; they were unaccompanied by social changes equally sudden, or equally complete; they were undictated, for the most part, by any exterior necessity; they were unheralded by any new or ...
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... century papacy, of a soil perfectly suited to receive the roots of the restored art was in itself a piece of rare good fortune. The return to the antique, however tentative and, so to say, provincial, at the first, was in essence and by ...
... century papacy, of a soil perfectly suited to receive the roots of the restored art was in itself a piece of rare good fortune. The return to the antique, however tentative and, so to say, provincial, at the first, was in essence and by ...
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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