The architecture of humanism
Subtitle: a study in the history of taste
By: by Geoffrey Scott ; with a portfolio of photographs ; [with a foreword by Henry Hope Reed and a new introduction by Paul Barolsky].
Series: The classical America series in art and architecture
Publisher: W.W. Norton; W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 194
Subjects: Architecture.; Aesthetics.
Description: 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.
Notes: Originally published: 1914. With new introd.