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

THE ROMANTIC FALLACY 83 new analyticinterest,taking noteforthe firsttime ofapermanent characterintheart. Norwerethese romanticel ...

84 THE ARCHITECTURE OF HUMANISM are commensurable at least in this: that each in some degree makesademandonour attention. Some w ...

THE ROMANTIC FALLACY 85 beappropriate. On asubduedscale,andhiddenin agarden,itmaybepleasantenough ; butthen, to bevisitedandnotl ...

86 THE ARCHITECTURE OF HUMANISM itself. Thetwo wereblendedinthe Baroque. Itis nottheleastamong theparadoxesofthat profoundly gre ...

THE ROMANTIC FALLACY 87 gances of design were neither unconsidered nor inconsistent. Itintellectualisedthe picturesgue.j Thatthe ...

88 THE ARCHITECTURE OF HUMANISM savingqualities whichcanreconcile itwitha'domi- nating and insistent art': the qualities of rese ...

THE ROMANTIC FALLACY 89 the grandeur of Piranesi's ' Carceri.' Piranesi's etchingswere multipliedrapidly andwidelycirculated; an ...

90 THE ARCHITECTURE OF HUMANISM curiousandwilfullycapricious, likethemodem style of Germany or the fantastic style of the Gothic ...

THE ROMANTICFALLACY 91 charming, architecture? With what is it con- trasted? Itisusuallyimplied that the alternative is mereform ...

92 THEARCHITECTURE OF HUMANISM ideal,thepicturesquerenders tasteobtuse,or suffers it toremain so. Likeacoarseweed,notunbeauti- f ...

THEROMANTIC FALLACY 93 still imposed its habit upon thought, disaster was arrested, j ThecultofNaturewasaconventionlike therest, ...

CHAPTER IV THE MECHANICALFALLACY Such,in broadoutline,werethe tendencies,andsuch, for architecture, the results, of the criticis ...

THE MECHANICALFALLACY 95 scientific methodthat, onlyin sofarasphenomena couldsoberendered, mightanyprofitableresultsbe expected ...

96 THEARCHITECTURE OF HUMANISM readily thanthe rest,intheterms of apurely scien- tific description ; itsaims,moreover, could eas ...

THEMECHANICAL FALLACY 97 intermittentbuttressinghadsolved theconstructive problemwhichhadpuzzledthe architectsofthenorth ever si ...

98 THEARCHITECTU5£-ei\HUMANISM hesitation, constructionalfacttoaestheticeffect. It hadnot achieved,itseemednotevento have desire ...

THE MECHANICAL FALLACY 99 towered into the sky far above the churches, the magnitude of whose interiors they pretended to expres ...

100 THEARCHITECTURE OF HUMANISM which that claim involves. The relation of con-'' struction to design is the fundamental problem ...

THE MECHANICALFALLACY loi Andin supportofthiscontention,thescientific critic willshowhow,inthe Gothicstyle,everydetailcon- fesse ...

102 THE ARCHITECTURE OF HUMANISM thathedoesnotbasehis case onauthority,buton the merits of his definition: that his argument is, ...