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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... cult for individuality and power. Cosimo the Great, whom Michelozzo followed into exile at Venice, Lorenzo, the protector of Giuliano da Sangallo, Alphonso in the South, in the North the Sforzas —these, and others like them, were ...
... cult for individuality and power. Cosimo the Great, whom Michelozzo followed into exile at Venice, Lorenzo, the protector of Giuliano da Sangallo, Alphonso in the South, in the North the Sforzas —these, and others like them, were ...
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... cult of the extinct. In its essence, romanticism is not favourable to plastic form. It is too much concerned with the vague and the remembered to find its natural expression in the wholly concrete. Romanticism is not plastic; neither is ...
... cult of the extinct. In its essence, romanticism is not favourable to plastic form. It is too much concerned with the vague and the remembered to find its natural expression in the wholly concrete. Romanticism is not plastic; neither is ...
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Geoffrey Scott. was itself a romantic movement. The cult of mediævalism, stimulated by the revival of ballad literature and by antiquarian novelists, is not more romanticist than the idealisation of antiquity, four centuries earlier ...
Geoffrey Scott. was itself a romantic movement. The cult of mediævalism, stimulated by the revival of ballad literature and by antiquarian novelists, is not more romanticist than the idealisation of antiquity, four centuries earlier ...
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... cult of 'ideal' severity it cut down too scrupulously all evidence of life; and when, with the passing of the old order of society, vanished also the high level of workmanship and exquisite ordering of ideas which that society had ...
... cult of 'ideal' severity it cut down too scrupulously all evidence of life; and when, with the passing of the old order of society, vanished also the high level of workmanship and exquisite ordering of ideas which that society had ...
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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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