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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... confusion has resulted. I have attempted, consequently, in the very narrow field with which this book is concerned, to trace the natural history of our opinions, to discover how far upon their own premisses they are true or false, and ...
... confusion has resulted. I have attempted, consequently, in the very narrow field with which this book is concerned, to trace the natural history of our opinions, to discover how far upon their own premisses they are true or false, and ...
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... confused in its process; it has built up strangely diverse theories of the art, and the verdicts it has pronounced have been contradictory in the extreme. Of the causes which have contributed to its failure, this is the chief: that it ...
... confused in its process; it has built up strangely diverse theories of the art, and the verdicts it has pronounced have been contradictory in the extreme. Of the causes which have contributed to its failure, this is the chief: that it ...
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... confused and partly fortuitous phenomenon which architecture actually is, and estimates the phenomenon by a method as confused and fortuitous as itself. It passes in and out of the three provinces of thought, and relates its subject now ...
... confused and partly fortuitous phenomenon which architecture actually is, and estimates the phenomenon by a method as confused and fortuitous as itself. It passes in and out of the three provinces of thought, and relates its subject now ...
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... confusion. The 'condition of delight' in architecture—its value as an art—may conceivably be found to consist in its firmness, or in its commodity, or in both; or it may consist in something else different from, yet dependent upon these ...
... confusion. The 'condition of delight' in architecture—its value as an art—may conceivably be found to consist in its firmness, or in its commodity, or in both; or it may consist in something else different from, yet dependent upon these ...
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... confuse our actual experience at the source. To trace the full measure of that confusion, and if possible to correct it, is therefore the first object of this book. We enter a limbo of dead but still haunting controversies, of old and ...
... confuse our actual experience at the source. To trace the full measure of that confusion, and if possible to correct it, is therefore the first object of this book. We enter a limbo of dead but still haunting controversies, of old and ...
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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