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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... relation of taste to ideas, and the influence which each has exerted on the other, that our present confusion has resulted. I have attempted, consequently, in the very narrow field with which this book is concerned, to trace the natural ...
... relation of taste to ideas, and the influence which each has exerted on the other, that our present confusion has resulted. I have attempted, consequently, in the very narrow field with which this book is concerned, to trace the natural ...
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... relation they bear to one another, never pursuing to their conclusion the consequences which they involve. It has leaned now this way and now that, and struck, between these incommensurable virtues, at different points, its arbitrary ...
... relation they bear to one another, never pursuing to their conclusion the consequences which they involve. It has leaned now this way and now that, and struck, between these incommensurable virtues, at different points, its arbitrary ...
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... relation to their progress. It provides power, but does not, artistically, control its use. The economic conditions which, in Italy, assisted the architecture of the Renaissance to assume such prominence, did not vary with the marked ...
... relation to their progress. It provides power, but does not, artistically, control its use. The economic conditions which, in Italy, assisted the architecture of the Renaissance to assume such prominence, did not vary with the marked ...
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... relation to the mechanical means by which they were produced, irrespective of the materials out of which they were constructed, irrespective sometimes even of the actual purposes they were to serve. They had an immediate preference for ...
... relation to the mechanical means by which they were produced, irrespective of the materials out of which they were constructed, irrespective sometimes even of the actual purposes they were to serve. They had an immediate preference for ...
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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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