Church Building: A Study of the Principles of Architecture in Their Relation to the Church - Couverture souple

Cram, Ralph Adams

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1145476988 ISBN 13 : 9781145476981

Editeur : Nabu Press, 2010

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Book by Cram Ralph Adams

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Excerpt from Church Building: A Study of the Principles of Architecture in Their Relation

So far as the art itself is concerned, its notable advance owes as little to the schools as did its earliest inception in the first half of the nineteenth century. To this day schools of architecture are generally as scornful both of the problem and its stylistic expression as they ever have been since official architectural schools came into existence. Whatever has been gained has been without their aid, and simply because, schools or no schools, there was a new spirit working in the world, a new demand that inevitably produced the corresponding supply. There is nothing self-conscious in the religious art of the time, nothing factitious or premeditated; it is working instinctively though slowly, and it is gradually reaching out through all classes and all denominations. Little by little it is acquiring coherency, and when once this synthesis is accomplished, it may be able to rise to its high possibilities and materially aid in the achievement of that same coherency and synthesis in the organic forms of the religion it serves, as in the natural forms, which are architecture and all the arts when called into this service.

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Nabu Press
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1145476988
• ISBN 13: 9781145476981
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 254
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