The architecture of humanism; a study in the history of taste

THE BIOLOGICAL FALLACY 183 to law ; beyond that field it holds true only by analogy. Wecanjudgeanorganism by oneconstant standar ...

i84 THE ARCHITECTUREOF HUMANISM between the conceptionandthe technique. In the archaicstage, techniqueisasaruleadequateto the co ...

THE BIOLOGICAL FALLACY 185 moment,and developedparipassuwithcreativeart. Nogiftofimaginativeflexibilitywasrequired. But fora mod ...

CHAPTERVII THE ACADEMIC TRADITION I ' There are in reality,'saysarchitecture'sprincipal historian, ' two styles of Architectural ...

THE ACADEMIC TRADITION 187 is a backward vision, a preoccupation with the antique. Somuchmust beconcededevenbythose whohavestudi ...

1 88 THE ARCHITECTUREOF HUMANISM belongs to thenaturalproductsofatime and place. Itistooclassical. Ontheotherhandthereisaschool ...

THE ACADEMIC TRADITION 189 spirit a devout obedience tothe antique; in result, itproducedastyleofrare originality. The ' seeker ...

190 THEARCHITECTURE OF HUMANISM to a second life. Thegates and aqueducts of the emperors, with theirproud and classic inscriptio ...

THEACADEMIC TRADITION 191 II Thereturn toclassicstyle inbuildingformspart ofthegeneralmovementofRenaissanceHumanism — aphase ofc ...

192 THE ARCHITECTUREOF HUMANISM Renaissance ideal: and Greece and Rome, almost of necessity,became itsimageanditssymbol. The Rom ...

THE ACADEMIC TRADITION 193 substancetoworkupon,aformtoalterorpreserve, a base upon which, when inspiration flags, it may retire. ...

194 THE ARCHITECTURE OF HUMANISM to recall the libertinismof the seventeenth cen1:ury backtotheacademic yokeofPalladio. But othe ...

THE ACADEMIC TRADITION 195 founded his great work upon it, and its influence reachedEngland by 1563 inthe briefessayof John Shut ...

196 THEARCHITECTURE OF HUMANISM observationsuponoptics,andachapter on acoustics. ^Esthetic distinctionsaredrawninthemannerof the ...

THE ACADEMIC TRADITION 197 All this was eagerly received, but most eagerly of all were welcomed the famous ' Rules.' ' The capit ...

198 THEARCHITECTURE OF HUMANISM was lacking. Pedantry, in that astonishing time, wasan ideal ; itwas an inspiration ; it was not ...

THEACADEMIC TRADITION 199 Academic art has its danger. Sometimes it im- pliesarefusal to rethink theproblematissue. Some- times, ...

200 THEARCHITECTURE OF HUMANISM they sacrificed the unaffected merits of the old national architecture, were a mere travesty of ...

THE ACADEMIC TRADITION 201 dethroned the authority of Rome itself; science turnedits back onGreece andRometogether;and Romantici ...

202 THE ARCHITECTURE OF HUMANISM niseditselfinthehopesand habitsof itsimmediate past; itdidrecogniseitself,onthe contrary,inthat ...