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

HUMANIST VALUES 223 are straight. No doubt the straight lines which boundthe rectangular formsofarchitecture,itsdoors anditswind ...

224 THE ARCHITECTUREOF HUMANISM it,havethesense ofaperpetuallythwarted instinct of movement. The arrangement of the scheme is im ...

HUMANIST VALUES 225 Bramahte — ^aims at authority, dignity, and peaceJ It doesthisby conveying atevery pointa senseof equipoise. ...

226 THE ARCHITECTURE OF HUMANISM IV Butbesidesspaceswhichhave merelylength and breadth— surfaces,that istosay, atwhich welook — ...

HUMANIST VALUES 227 But though we mayoverlook it, space affectsus andcancontrol ourspirit; and alarge partofthe pleasureweobtain ...

228 THE ARCHITECTURE OF HUMANISM wit h it will seem^o assist us ; everything which thwarts it will appear impertinent and ugly. ...

HUMANIST VALUES 229 ineveryindividual, butobviouslyofinfiniteantiquity intherace. Itisnotsurprising, then,thatitshould have beco ...

230 THE ARCHITECTURE OF HUMANISM the upward limit ofspace-sensation instead ofthe actually enclosingroof. Nothing,therefore, wil ...

HUMANIST VALUES 231 ence, and our unconscious mimetic instinct impels usto identifyourselves with apparentweight,pres- sure, and ...

232 THEARCHITECTURE OF HUMANISM adequacy,and satisfiesavital instinctin ourselves. It exacts thisadequacyin thedetailofits decor ...

HUMANIST VALUES 233 Saveforafewfaultsofdesign inthelowerbays,there ishardlyanelement in the church whichdoes not proclaimthebeau ...

234 THE ARCHITECTURE OF HUMANISM impressionofitssize. In anybuilding threethings may be distinguished: thebigness whichit actual ...

HUMANIST VALUES 235 thismethod, while thebaroquearchitects soughtto emphasisemassbythe magnitudeofthepartsthem- selves. But in b ...

236 THE ARCHITECTURE OF HUMANISM Nevertheless order,or coherence, in architecture stands ona different plane to the values of ma ...

HUMANIST VALUES 237 axialplanning mustresult. Symmetryand Balance are forms of Order; but they are beautiful, not because they a ...

238 THE ARCHITECTURE OF HUMANISM the memory or imagination of things not actually seen. Thus, Orderin Nature bearsno relation to ...

HUMANIST VALUES 239 by mass,space, andline responds tohuman physical delight, and by coherence answers toour thought. The^e mean ...

240 THEARCHITECTURE OF HUMANISM —studyitimpartiallyforwhatitis,like the man of science ; itremains, in theend asin thebeginning, ...

HUMANIST VALUES 241 stnictedaworldasmandesires it,responsivetohis instinctand hisstature. Buthumanismhasits practical aspectaswe ...

242 THEARCHITECTURE OF HUMANISM imposed a harmonyuponthe plan. Divorcedfrom this ritual, Gothic, asitsdomesticbuilding and its s ...