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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... past arose. It accepts the confused and partly fortuitous phenomenon which architecture actually is, and estimates the phenomenon by a method as confused and fortuitous as itself. It passes in and out of the three provinces of thought ...
... past arose. It accepts the confused and partly fortuitous phenomenon which architecture actually is, and estimates the phenomenon by a method as confused and fortuitous as itself. It passes in and out of the three provinces of thought ...
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... past, and with it rises a tradition which was never fundamentally deserted, until in the nineteenth century traditionalism itself was cast aside. It is in Italy, where Renaissance architecture was native, that we shall follow this ...
... past, and with it rises a tradition which was never fundamentally deserted, until in the nineteenth century traditionalism itself was cast aside. It is in Italy, where Renaissance architecture was native, that we shall follow this ...
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... past controversies, but those controversies themselves are clouded with the dust of more heroic combats, and loud with the battlecries of poetry and morals, philosophy, politics, and science. For it is unluckily the fact that thought ...
... past controversies, but those controversies themselves are clouded with the dust of more heroic combats, and loud with the battlecries of poetry and morals, philosophy, politics, and science. For it is unluckily the fact that thought ...
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... past when an architecture of such calculated restraint as Sammichele had foreshadowed could capture long attention; and the art of Peruzzi, rich though it was with neverexhausted possibilities, seems to have perished unexplored, because ...
... past when an architecture of such calculated restraint as Sammichele had foreshadowed could capture long attention; and the art of Peruzzi, rich though it was with neverexhausted possibilities, seems to have perished unexplored, because ...
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... past, so rapid and so oblivious that few of its principal buildings were completed in the style in which they were begun. Nevertheless it pursued one undeviating course of constructive evolution. Beside this scientific zeal the ...
... past, so rapid and so oblivious that few of its principal buildings were completed in the style in which they were begun. Nevertheless it pursued one undeviating course of constructive evolution. Beside this scientific zeal the ...
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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