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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... less specious axioms, of halftruths, unrelated, uncriticised and often contradictory, by means of which there is no building so bad that it cannot with a little ingenuity be justified, or so good that it cannot plausibly be condemned ...
... less specious axioms, of halftruths, unrelated, uncriticised and often contradictory, by means of which there is no building so bad that it cannot with a little ingenuity be justified, or so good that it cannot plausibly be condemned ...
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... less, to see in it an expression of human life. This furnishes a standard of value totally distinct from the scientific. Buildings may be judged by the success with which they supply the practical ends they are designed to meet. Or, by ...
... less, to see in it an expression of human life. This furnishes a standard of value totally distinct from the scientific. Buildings may be judged by the success with which they supply the practical ends they are designed to meet. Or, by ...
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... less, an independent sense of beauty. Nature, unfortunately, would seem to unite these qualities with extreme reluctance. Obviously, there is room for confusion. The 'condition of delight' in architecture—its value as an art—may ...
... less, an independent sense of beauty. Nature, unfortunately, would seem to unite these qualities with extreme reluctance. Obviously, there is room for confusion. The 'condition of delight' in architecture—its value as an art—may ...
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... less certainty of misconception, a statement of the æsthetic values on which Renaissance architecture is based. To follow, in concrete detail, this Architecture of Humanism, to see how the principles here sketched out are confirmed by ...
... less certainty of misconception, a statement of the æsthetic values on which Renaissance architecture is based. To follow, in concrete detail, this Architecture of Humanism, to see how the principles here sketched out are confirmed by ...
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... less to the power of architecture to create and define the imaginative value of the Renaissance papacy, than to the encouragement and inspiration which the papacy contributed to art. Moreover, the character of the papacy in this period ...
... less to the power of architecture to create and define the imaginative value of the Renaissance papacy, than to the encouragement and inspiration which the papacy contributed to art. Moreover, the character of the papacy in this period ...
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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