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

THEMECHANICAL FALLACY 103 struction, for, constructively, it is often extremely clumsyandwasteful. Can wenowdescribe it as ' con ...

104 THEARCHITECTURE OFHUMANISM bebeautiful,itwould be a reductioadabsurdumtobe forcedtoadmitthattheyallare: stillmorethatthey ar ...

THE MECHANICAL FALLACY 105 graceormajestyof thedesign. Butgoodarchitecture, j nevertheless, mustbe, on the whole, at once beauti ...

106 THEARCHITECTURE OFHUMANISM fromthepointofviewofart,theelementofbeauty is indispensable, while the element of constructive ra ...

THE MECHANICAL FALLACY 107 his canvas orcompounds his pigments, butwe do take delightintheadjustmentofsupporttoload,and thrust t ...

io8 THEARCHITECTURE OF HUMANISM pilasters of many Renaissance buildings may be agreeable enough as patterns of form, but are no ...

THE MECHANICAL FALLACY 109 whethertheidealisas rationalandconsistent asit sounds. In the first place,it is clear that the vivid ...

no THEARCHITECTURE OF HUMANISM the building is of a wholly disparate kind: why, then,must theyalwaysbeachieved byanidentical exp ...

THE MECHANICAL FALLACY iii what was the alternative. Greek architecture was simply templearchitecture. Here, architecturalart wa ...

112 THE ARCHITECTURE OF HUMANISM domeofSt.Peter'sweseeaconstruction,thegrandeur ofwhichlies preciselyinthe self-containedsense o ...

THE ]|ECHA;^ICAL FALLACY 113 architects ofths Renaissance, asaschool,not only enrichedarchitejtture witinewbeauty,butwereable to ...

114 THE ARCHITECTUREOF HUMANISM of constructive fact wherever theyoccur. And, if the Renaissancearchitects, ontheirside, sometim ...

THE MECHANICAL FALLACY 115 raisedtoo high forsecurity,and thatthecolonnade fallstoo lowtoreceive thethrust, andthat,inany case, ...

ii6 THE ARCHITECTURE OF HUMANISM ofcertain curvesandcertain relationsofpressure to resistanceby anunconscious(or usually unconsc ...

THE MECHANICALFALLACY 117 moreadequately inalaterchapter, but evenif our scientific assailant refuses to admit the distinction b ...

ii8 THE ARCHITECTURE OF HUMANISM]] attempted something different from what he did attempt, then the dome of St. Peter's may indu ...

THE MECHANICAL FALLACY 119 laws. Weight and resistance, burden and effort, weakness andpower,areelementsinourown.exgeri- ence,&l ...

120 THE ARCHITECTURE OF HUMANISM donotexpress themselvesinour terms,i They arg^ notpowerfuloverusfor delight. ^^.^u^S*iXid In pr ...

CHAPTER V THE ETHICALFALLACY I * IMIGHTinsist atlengthontheabsurdity of(Renais-] sance) construction... but it is not the form o ...

122 THE ARCHITECTURE OF HUMANISM Composite, orin anywayGrecised or Romanised ; whateverbetraysthesmallest respectforVitruvian la ...