[Read now] The Architecture of Humanism: A Study in the History of Taste (Classical America Series in Art and Architecture)
✿ Geoffrey Scott ✿
| #257371 in Books | 1999-06-17 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.00 x.60 x5.40l,.67 | File Name: 0393730352 | 194 pages
||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Brilliant rejoinder to Ruskin's Stones of Venice|By Greg Koenderman|Insightful, passionate defense of Renaissance architecture. The arguments are full of metaphor and poetry - nothing like contemporary criticism - but for the most part avoid the sentimentality and self-seduction of that style of writing. Manages to feel relevant even 100 years on. The conversion to kindle form||“A new edition of this minor classic of architectural criticism is welcome not only because it is still worth reading but also because it is so apposite, for the architectural situation a hundred years ago was similar to our own. . . .In a period such a
A classic text in architectural and art historical theory.
Reissued in trade format with a new introduction, 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 ... [PDF.fn70] The Architecture of Humanism: A Study in the History of Taste (Classical America Series in Art and Architecture) Rating: 3.65 (799 Votes)
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