Architectural Principles in the Age of Humanism

Architectural Principles in the Age of Humanism
Author: Rudolf Wittkower
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 244
Release: 1971
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780393005998
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Sir Kenneth Clark wrote in the Architectural Review, that the first result of this book was "to dispose, once and for all, of the hedonist, or purely aesthetic, theory of Renaissance architecture, ' and this defines Wittkower's intention in a nutshell.

Architectonics of Humanism

Architectonics of Humanism
Author: Lionel March
Publisher:
Total Pages: 308
Release: 1998-12-08
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:
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Reinterpreting the architectural principles of the Renaissance period. This book presents a fresh viewpoint on the use of symmetry and proportion in Alberti and Palladio with the help of new illustrations and examples. Covering the evolution of the Renaissance tradition into the twentieth century, this book offers a new evaluation which veers from Le Corbusier and the French school and moves toward the continuation and transformation in the Viennese and Chicago practices exemplified by Frank Lloyd Wright and the American school. Lionel March (Los Angeles, CA) is a practicing architect and an avid follower of the Modernist tradition in architecture. He also teaches at the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at UCLA.

Architectural Principles in the Age of Historicism

Architectural Principles in the Age of Historicism
Author: Robert Jan van Pelt
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 438
Release: 1991-01-01
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780300057881
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Explores the relationship between architectural history and the current practice of architecture. The authors draw on insights from anthropology, ancient history, theology, philosophy and the Holocaust. They also provide practical ideas which should help students build a more human world.

The Maze of Ingenuity, second edition

The Maze of Ingenuity, second edition
Author: Arnold Pacey
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 322
Release: 1992-01-23
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780262660754
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From cathedrals to star wars, Arnold Pacey looks at the interaction of technologies and society over the last thousand years and uses that survey to argue for a more humane form of future technological development. The second edition of The Maze of Ingenuity concentrates on Europe and North America and incorporates recent insights from the history and sociology of technology. A new series of chapters extends Pacey's discussion of the role of ideas and ideals in technology in the period since the industrial revolution. Contents The Cathedral Builders: European Technical Achievement between 1100 and 1280 • A Century of Invention: 1250-1350 • Mathematics and the Arts: 1450-1600 • The Practical Arts and the Scientific Revolution • Social Ideals in Technical Change: German Miners and English Puritans, 1450-1650 • The State and Technical Progress: 1660-1770 • Technology in the Industrial Revolution • Conflicting Ideals in Engineering: America and Britain, 1790-1870 • Institutionalizing Technical Ideals, 1820-1920 • Idealistic Trends in Twentieth-Century Technology