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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Geoffrey Scott. virtue of which architecture becomes art. It is a separate instinct. Sometimes it will borrow a ... instincts which, in the other arts, exert an obvious and unhampered activity, have succeeded in realising themselves also ...
Geoffrey Scott. virtue of which architecture becomes art. It is a separate instinct. Sometimes it will borrow a ... instincts which, in the other arts, exert an obvious and unhampered activity, have succeeded in realising themselves also ...
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... instincts of mankind. But, once more, the very success of the movement was occasioned by the fact, so well appreciated by the Jesuits, that the taste for such an architecture was already there. The readiness of the seicento Italians to ...
... instincts of mankind. But, once more, the very success of the movement was occasioned by the fact, so well appreciated by the Jesuits, that the taste for such an architecture was already there. The readiness of the seicento Italians to ...
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... instincts of which the intellect can give no immediate account. It is an unconscious attempt to drill art into the readymade categories which we have found useful in quite other fields, and to explain the unfamiliar by the familiar. It ...
... instincts of which the intellect can give no immediate account. It is an unconscious attempt to drill art into the readymade categories which we have found useful in quite other fields, and to explain the unfamiliar by the familiar. It ...
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... instinct of the age, added, at the same time, to its appropriate decorative resources. The successive stages of the Gothic taste exhibit very clearly the character of romanticism, and the point at which it overweighs the sense of form ...
... instinct of the age, added, at the same time, to its appropriate decorative resources. The successive stages of the Gothic taste exhibit very clearly the character of romanticism, and the point at which it overweighs the sense of form ...
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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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