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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... facts to be explained. We subsist on a number of architectural habits, on scraps of tradition, on caprices and prejudices, and above all on this mass of more or less specious axioms, of halftruths, unrelated, uncriticised and often ...
... facts to be explained. We subsist on a number of architectural habits, on scraps of tradition, on caprices and prejudices, and above all on this mass of more or less specious axioms, of halftruths, unrelated, uncriticised and often ...
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... facts, and conforms to constructive laws. That will be the scientific standard for architecture: a logical standard so ... fact of its history. Architecture is subservient to the general uses of mankind. And, immediately, politics and ...
... facts, and conforms to constructive laws. That will be the scientific standard for architecture: a logical standard so ... fact of its history. Architecture is subservient to the general uses of mankind. And, immediately, politics and ...
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... fact, is the result? The material data of our study we certainly possess in abundance: the statistics of architecture, the history of existing works, their shape and size and authorship, have long been investigated with the highest ...
... fact, is the result? The material data of our study we certainly possess in abundance: the statistics of architecture, the history of existing works, their shape and size and authorship, have long been investigated with the highest ...
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... fact been created and admired. Fashion consequently betrays these faultless arguments; for whatever has once genuinely pleased is likely to be again found pleasing; art and the enjoyment of art continue in the condemned paths undismayed ...
... fact been created and admired. Fashion consequently betrays these faultless arguments; for whatever has once genuinely pleased is likely to be again found pleasing; art and the enjoyment of art continue in the condemned paths undismayed ...
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Geoffrey Scott. have in fact been felt, and then to draw whatever laws and conclusions it may from that understanding. But no amount of reasoning will create, or can annul, an æsthetic experience; for the aim of the arts has not been ...
Geoffrey Scott. have in fact been felt, and then to draw whatever laws and conclusions it may from that understanding. But no amount of reasoning will create, or can annul, an æsthetic experience; for the aim of the arts has not been ...
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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