Architectonics Of Humanism

Author : Lionel March
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Architectonics of Humanism written by Lionel March and published by . This book was released on 1998-12-08 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reinterpreting the architectural principles of the Renaissance period. This book presents a fresh viewpoint on the use of symmetry and proportion in Alberti and Palladio with the help of new illustrations and examples. Covering the evolution of the Renaissance tradition into the twentieth century, this book offers a new evaluation which veers from Le Corbusier and the French school and moves toward the continuation and transformation in the Viennese and Chicago practices exemplified by Frank Lloyd Wright and the American school. Lionel March (Los Angeles, CA) is a practicing architect and an avid follower of the Modernist tradition in architecture. He also teaches at the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at UCLA.

Author : Lionel March
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 9781854905000
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Architectonics of Humanism written by Lionel March and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1997-10-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Rudolf Wittkower
Publisher : Wiley
ISBN 13 : 9780856708756
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Architectural Principles in the Age of Humanism written by Rudolf Wittkower and published by Wiley. This book was released on 1988-01-15 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Professor Wittkower's....studies of humanist architecture are masterpieces of scholarship."-Sir Kenneth Clark, Architectural Review. A fourth edition of the forty-year-old classic. Focusing on the principal architects of that time-from Alberti to Palladio-this bestselling classic explains the true significance of certain architectural forms, bringing to light the connections between the architecture and culture of the period. With publication scheduled to coincide with that of Architectonics of Humanism, this important reference is superbly reproduced in a new, large square format. The late RUDOLF WITTKOWER was a college professor and eminent scholar residing in London, England.

Author : Caspar Pearson
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271073977
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Humanism and the Urban World written by Caspar Pearson and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2015-10-20 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Humanism and the Urban World, Caspar Pearson offers a profoundly revisionist account of Leon Battista Alberti’s approach to the urban environment as exemplified in the extensive theoretical treatise De re aedificatoria (On the Art of Building in Ten Books), brought mostly to completion in the 1450s, as well as in his larger body of written work. Past scholars have generally characterized the Italian Renaissance architect and theorist as an enthusiast of the city who envisioned it as a rational, Renaissance ideal. Pearson argues, however, that Alberti’s approach to urbanism was far more complex—that he was even “essentially hostile” to the city at times. Rather than proposing the “ideal” city, Pearson maintains, Alberti presented a variety of possible cities, each one different from another. This book explores the ways in which Alberti sought to remedy urban problems, tracing key themes that manifest in De re aedificatoria. Chapters address Alberti’s consideration of the city’s possible destruction and the city’s capacity to provide order despite its intrinsic instability; his assessment of a variety of political solutions to that instability; his affinity for the countryside and discussions of the virtues of the active versus the contemplative life; and his theories of aesthetics and beauty, in particular the belief that beauty may affect the soul of an enemy and thus preserve buildings from attack.

Author : Geoffrey Scott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Architecture of Humanism written by Geoffrey Scott and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kim Williams
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3764387661
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nexus Network Journal 10,2 written by Kim Williams and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-12-16 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume features a collection of papers dedicated to "Canons of Form-Making", in honor of the 500th anniversary of the birth of architect Andrea Palladio (1508-1580). Theorist as well as practitioner, Palladio's architecture was based on well-defined canons that he had gleaned from studying the treatises as well as the remains of architecture from antiquity. Palladio himself left to posterity not only his large corpus of built works, but his Quattro libri d'architettura. Three of the papers in this issue are specifically about Palladio and his work. The other papers deal with canons of form-making, ancient and contemporary.

Author : Geoffrey Scott
Publisher : New York : Houghton Mifflin
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Architecture of Humanism written by Geoffrey Scott and published by New York : Houghton Mifflin. This book was released on 1914 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Geoffrey Scott
Publisher : Constable
ISBN 13 : 9781845299866
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Architecture of Humanism written by Geoffrey Scott and published by Constable. This book was released on 2005-07 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Leland M. Roth
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 042997521X
Total Pages : 1193 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding Architecture written by Leland M. Roth and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-03-13 with total page 1193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This widely acclaimed, beautifully illustrated survey of Western architecture is now fully revised throughout, including essays on non-Western traditions. The expanded book vividly examines the structure, function, history, and meaning of architecture in ways that are both accessible and engaging.

Author : David Ian Galbraith
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802044518
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Architectonics of Imitation in Spenser, Daniel, and Drayton written by David Ian Galbraith and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the boundaries between poetry and history on three of England's epic literary works, Galbraith argues that they enter into a dialogue with classical and contemporary predecessors with implications for understanding the English Renaissance.