The architecture of humanism : a study in the history of taste / by Geoffrey Scott ; with a portfolio of photographs ; [with a foreword by Henry Hope Reed and a new introduction by Paul Barolsky].

Main entry:

Scott, Geoffrey, 1885-1929.

Title & Author:

The architecture of humanism : a study in the history of taste / by Geoffrey Scott ; with a portfolio of photographs ; [with a foreword by Henry Hope Reed and a new introduction by Paul Barolsky].

Publication:

Description:

1 volume (various pagings) : illustrations ; 21 cm

Series:

The classical America series in art and architecture

Notes:
Originally published: 1914. With new introd.
Foreword / by Henry Hope Reed -- The aesthetic criticism of Geoffrey Scott / by Paul Barolsky -- Preface -- Preface to second edition -- Introduction -- Renaissance architecture -- The romantic fallacy -- The romantic fallacy : naturalism and the picturesque -- The mechanical fallacy -- The ethical fallacy -- The biological fallacy -- The academic tradition -- Humanist values -- Conclusion -- Epilogue, 1924 -- Analytic summary. .

Summary:

Geoffrey Scott offers an analysis of the theories behind 19th- and 20th-century architecture. He discusses the classical tradition as reflected in the architecture of Renaissance and Baroque Italy and the role given to the human body in that tradition.

ISBN:

0393730352 (pbk.)
9780393730357 (pbk.)

Subject:

Architecture.
Aesthetics.
Architecture, Modern.
Esthétique.
architecture (discipline)
Architecture Esthétique.
Goût (esthétique)

Added entries:

Classical America series in art and architecture.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 204788
Call No.: NA2500 .S4 1999
Status: Available

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