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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... forms, set limits to its achievement, and governed, in a measure, even its decorative detail. On every hand the study of architecture encounters physics, statics, and dynamics, suggesting, controlling, justifying its INTRODUCTION.
... forms, set limits to its achievement, and governed, in a measure, even its decorative detail. On every hand the study of architecture encounters physics, statics, and dynamics, suggesting, controlling, justifying its INTRODUCTION.
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... forms they would dictate. It has its own standard, and claims its own authority. It is possible, therefore, to ask how far, and how successfully, in any architectural style, this æsthetic impulse has been embodied; how far, that is to ...
... forms they would dictate. It has its own standard, and claims its own authority. It is possible, therefore, to ask how far, and how successfully, in any architectural style, this æsthetic impulse has been embodied; how far, that is to ...
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... forms at the hands of Brunelleschi, in the fifteenth 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 ...
... forms at the hands of Brunelleschi, in the fifteenth 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 ...
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... form, in fact, a complete chapter in architecture, to be read consecutively and as a whole. But at the two moments with which our study begins and ends, the sequence of architecture is radically cleft. The building of the Pazzi Chapel ...
... form, in fact, a complete chapter in architecture, to be read consecutively and as a whole. But at the two moments with which our study begins and ends, the sequence of architecture is radically cleft. The building of the Pazzi Chapel ...
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... forms of Brunelleschi, masterful as they appeared when, by a daring reversion of style, he liberated Italian ... form, though impassioned, was too reactionary, his conclusions too academic and too set, for an age when creative vigour was ...
... forms of Brunelleschi, masterful as they appeared when, by a daring reversion of style, he liberated Italian ... form, though impassioned, was too reactionary, his conclusions too academic and too set, for an age when creative vigour was ...
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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