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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... scientific standard for architecture: a logical standard so far as architecture is related to science, and no further. But architecture requires 'commodity.' It is not enough that it should possess its own internal coherence, its ...
... scientific standard for architecture: a logical standard so far as architecture is related to science, and no further. But architecture requires 'commodity.' It is not enough that it should possess its own internal coherence, its ...
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... scientific zeal the achievement of the Italian builders might appear, at first sight, to be as confused in aim as it was fertile in invention. Contrast it with the cumulative labour, the intensive concentration, by which the idea of ...
... scientific zeal the achievement of the Italian builders might appear, at first sight, to be as confused in aim as it was fertile in invention. Contrast it with the cumulative labour, the intensive concentration, by which the idea of ...
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... scientific logic; and beauty lingers in the art by a fortunate habit, or comes, in some new form, by accident to light. Such, in some sense, was the case with the mediæval Gothic; and so it might be with some future architecture of ...
... scientific logic; and beauty lingers in the art by a fortunate habit, or comes, in some new form, by accident to light. Such, in some sense, was the case with the mediæval Gothic; and so it might be with some future architecture of ...
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... scientific exactness, at least without provinciality or bias. Of the causes which precluded them from so doing, the first was the prolonged ascendency of the Romantic Movement. The Romantic Movement created in all the arts a deep unrest ...
... scientific exactness, at least without provinciality or bias. Of the causes which precluded them from so doing, the first was the prolonged ascendency of the Romantic Movement. The Romantic Movement created in all the arts a deep unrest ...
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... scientific. Romanticism is poetical. From literature it derives its inspiration; here is its strength; and here it can best express its meaning. In other fields—as in music—it has indeed attained to unimagined beauties; but always ...
... scientific. Romanticism is poetical. From literature it derives its inspiration; here is its strength; and here it can best express its meaning. In other fields—as in music—it has indeed attained to unimagined beauties; but always ...
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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