Studies in Architecture (Classic Reprint)

Blomfield, Reginald

ISBN 10 : 1440037345 ISBN 13 : 9781440037344

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

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The following Essays are connected rather by the method of treatment attempted than by subject. Architecture is a difficult art, and it is less popular in England than in other countries. The reason is, I believe, that writers have dealt with architecture either as an affair of dates and technicalities or as a vehicle for moral disquisition. The first method has little interest for the layman, and the latter none at all for the artist. The result has been that architecture, considered as an art, has dropped out of the main stream of educated thought, and has lost touch of that intelligent interest which is freely accorded to the sister arts. The problem for the critic is, I think, to find in architecture the personal equation of the architect, to read his personality in his works, and to find a clue to his works in his personality. After all, the vital interest of architecture is the human interest, not merely the reflection of social habit in buildings, but that play of personal temperament, which is as clearly traceable in the works of architects as it is in those of painters and sculptors. It is to this point that I have addressed myself in the following Essays.

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Category: Technology and Engineering - Architecture

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• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1440037345
• ISBN 13: 9781440037344
• Reliure: Livre broché
• Nombre de pages: 308