THE ARCHITECTURE OF HUMANISM A Study in the History of Taste1969 |
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... appears in contemporary art , does so in fragments and distortions , and it sometimes seems that humanism has been wholly rejected by today's architects . Yet Scott , going beyond the immediate presence of the human body , pursues the ...
... appears in contemporary art , does so in fragments and distortions , and it sometimes seems that humanism has been wholly rejected by today's architects . Yet Scott , going beyond the immediate presence of the human body , pursues the ...
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... appear shorter than they are , by ' joints , ' which are in reality only channels on the surface . In both cases the purpose is to maintain ' scale ' ; the unit of design , that is to say , is not material but æsthetic . ence for ...
... appear shorter than they are , by ' joints , ' which are in reality only channels on the surface . In both cases the purpose is to maintain ' scale ' ; the unit of design , that is to say , is not material but æsthetic . ence for ...
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... appears - as common lan- guage testifies - to soar . We identify ourselves , not with its actual downward pressure , but its apparent upward im- pulse . So , too , by the same excellent - because unconscious -testimony of speech ...
... appears - as common lan- guage testifies - to soar . We identify ourselves , not with its actual downward pressure , but its apparent upward im- pulse . So , too , by the same excellent - because unconscious -testimony of speech ...
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Foreword by Henry Hope Reed | 15 |
ONE Renaissance Architecture | 25 |
Two The Romantic Fallacy | 40 |
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academic achieved æsthetic value aissance antique appear archi ARCHITECTURE OF HUMANISM argument artistic baroque architects beauty Bernini Bramante Brunelleschi building century chitecture civilisation classic classic architecture coherence confused conscious construction criticism of architecture cult delight distinct dome effect elements Empire style ethical criticism experience expression fact false forms Geoffrey Scott give Gothic Gothic revival Greek humanist ideal ideas imagination imitation influence insistent instinct intellectual Italian Italy laws less literary logic Mary Berenson mass material means mechanical mediæval ment mind modern moral Nature ourselves painting Palladio past period physical picturesque pleasure poetic poetry practical prejudice principle proportion qualities quattrocento realised recognise relation Renais Renaissance architecture Renaissance style Roman architecture Romantic Fallacy Romantic Movement Romanticism Rome Ruskin sance satisfy scientific Scott sculpture sense sequence space spirit Stones of Venice structure taste tecture things thought tion tradition true tural ture Vitruvian Vitruvius