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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... prejudices, and above all on this mass of more or 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 ...
... prejudices, and above all on this mass of more or 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 ...
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... prejudice, ridicule, and confusion. The attempt to reason honestly or to see clearly in architecture has not been very frequent or conspicuous; but, even where it exists, the terms it must employ are hardened with misuse, and the vision ...
... prejudice, ridicule, and confusion. The attempt to reason honestly or to see clearly in architecture has not been very frequent or conspicuous; but, even where it exists, the terms it must employ are hardened with misuse, and the vision ...
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... prejudice? What is the reason of the persistent attempt to force upon architectural art such external standards, and to explain it by such external influences? Clearly, it is this. Taste is supposed to be a matter so various, so ...
... prejudice? What is the reason of the persistent attempt to force upon architectural art such external standards, and to explain it by such external influences? Clearly, it is this. Taste is supposed to be a matter so various, so ...
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... architecture, still lingers in its criticism. The Gothic revival is past, while the romantic prejudices that engendered it remain. And these it is important to define. The first fallacy of Romanticism, then, and the gravest, is.
... architecture, still lingers in its criticism. The Gothic revival is past, while the romantic prejudices that engendered it remain. And these it is important to define. The first fallacy of Romanticism, then, and the gravest, is.
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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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