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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... qualities with extreme reluctance. Obviously, there is room for confusion. The 'condition of delight' in architecture—its value as an art—may conceivably be found to consist in its firmness, or in its commodity, or in both; or it may ...
... qualities with extreme reluctance. Obviously, there is room for confusion. The 'condition of delight' in architecture—its value as an art—may conceivably be found to consist in its firmness, or in its commodity, or in both; or it may ...
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... qualities were favourable to the vigour of a partly retrospective enthusiasm, fascinated by the broken ruins in which ancient Rome had embodied splendours so similar to these. And this was not all. For, in proportion as the classic ...
... qualities were favourable to the vigour of a partly retrospective enthusiasm, fascinated by the broken ruins in which ancient Rome had embodied splendours so similar to these. And this was not all. For, in proportion as the classic ...
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... qualities as these baroque churches embodied, are preexistent facts. The achievement of the Jesuits lay in converting these preferences of a still pagan humanity to Catholic uses, aggressively answering the ascetic remonstrance of the ...
... qualities as these baroque churches embodied, are preexistent facts. The achievement of the Jesuits lay in converting these preferences of a still pagan humanity to Catholic uses, aggressively answering the ascetic remonstrance of the ...
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... qualities in architecture. Till then, travertine had been used, against its nature, in the Florentine tradition of sharp detail. In the Renaissance the imagination came first; and where it existed it never failed to find materials for ...
... qualities in architecture. Till then, travertine had been used, against its nature, in the Florentine tradition of sharp detail. In the Renaissance the imagination came first; and where it existed it never failed to find materials for ...
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... qualities that belong appropriately to literature, and find place in architecture, if at all, then only in a secondary degree, it so falsified the real significance of the art that, even at the present time, when the Romantic Movement ...
... qualities that belong appropriately to literature, and find place in architecture, if at all, then only in a secondary degree, it so falsified the real significance of the art that, even at the present time, when the Romantic Movement ...
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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