ANALYTIC

SUMMARY

Reinforcing influences;

scholarship;

printing;the dis

coveryofVitruvius

....

Reasonsforthe

prestigeofVitruvius

Natureofhis

treatise ....

Misconception

astoitsinfluence

uponItalianarchitects

itstruevalue

....

ItsvalueoutsideItaly

....

Renaissancearchitecture

as

'

natural'toitsperiodas

any

other

.....

^hepracticalvalueofacademiccanonsin

architecture

kTheweaknessoftheacademictheoryof

architecture

Theidealof'correctness

'

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Theidealof'Order' ....

^
Neitherofthese,assuch,providean
adequatebasisfor

taste

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CHAPTER

VIII

.—HUMANISTVALUES ^

ikZrhetrueelementsofarchitecturalartareMasses,Spaces

andLines .....

Discomfortofarchitecturalugliness

Not

explicable

by

mereassociationof

ideas

Orasapurephysicalsensation

Butimpliesaprocessofmentalself-identificationwiththe

apparentphysicalstate ofthe object,andasym

patheticactivityofthephysicalmemory

Answerto

certainpossibleobjectionsto

thisview

:

(i)thatitarguesfrommetaphors

(2)

thatitiscomplicatedandunnatural

(3)

thatitistoophysical

(4)

thatitwould have beenunmeaningtothosewho

actually

createdthearchitectureinquestion

Applicationofthe

theoryin

the

caseoflines

Lineandmovement

Applicationofthetheorytotwodimensionalspace

Movementinseries....

Applicationofthe

theorytothreedimensionalspace

Conditionsaffectingspace-value

inarchitecture.

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