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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... realised that in the present state of our thought no theory of art could be made convincing, or even clear, to any one not already persuaded of its truth. There may, at the present time, be a lack of architectural taste: there is ...
... realised that in the present state of our thought no theory of art could be made convincing, or even clear, to any one not already persuaded of its truth. There may, at the present time, be a lack of architectural taste: there is ...
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... realising themselves also through this more complicated and more restricted instrument. And we can ask, still further, whether there may not be æsthetic instincts, for which this instrument, restricted as it is, may furnish the sole and ...
... realising themselves also through this more complicated and more restricted instrument. And we can ask, still further, whether there may not be æsthetic instincts, for which this instrument, restricted as it is, may furnish the sole and ...
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... realise its own creative resources, its own untried originality. It could not have found itself in any rigid discipline or imposed continuity such as that which, later, in the France of Louis XIV., gave to architecture a formal and ...
... realise its own creative resources, its own untried originality. It could not have found itself in any rigid discipline or imposed continuity such as that which, later, in the France of Louis XIV., gave to architecture a formal and ...
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... realised, a sharp distinction was now admitted. How far such a distinction between construction and design is legitimate for architecture is open to dispute. The question, which is a difficult one, must be examined more closely in a ...
... realised, a sharp distinction was now admitted. How far such a distinction between construction and design is legitimate for architecture is open to dispute. The question, which is a difficult one, must be examined more closely in a ...
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... realised with full selfconsciousness; in the last stages of the Empire style the resources of classic architecture seem at length to be exhausted; in that style the architects of Napoleon built the monument, and wrote the epitaph, of ...
... realised with full selfconsciousness; in the last stages of the Empire style the resources of classic architecture seem at length to be exhausted; in that style the architects of Napoleon built the monument, and wrote the epitaph, of ...
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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The Architecture of Humanism: A Study in the History of Taste Geoffrey Scott Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 1999 |
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