Architectural Principles of the Age of Humanism.

Wittkower, Rudolf, 1901-1971

Published by New York: W. W. Norton, 1971

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PAPERBACK, cover price $3.45, very good, light wear, 1971 printing with red cover. previous owner's name. WITTKOWER, RUDOLF. Architectural Principles of the Age of Humanism. New York: W. W. Norton, 1971, later printing, 48 illustrations in plates, 173pp., . Cover design by Todd Ash. N599. Includes three-page preface dated 1971. First published in 1949. "The general impact of Professor Wittkower's book on a whole generation of post-war architectural students is one of the phenomena of our time. Its exposition of a body of architectural theory in which function and form were significantly linked by the objective laws governing the Cosmos (as Alberti and Palladio understood them) suddenly offered a way out of the doldrum of routine-functionalist abdications, and neo-Palladianism became the order of the day. The effect of Architectural Principles has made it by far the most important contribution - for evil as well as good - by any historian to English Architecture since Pioneers of the Modern Movement, and it precipitated a nice disputation on the proper uses of history. The question became: Humanist principles to be followed? Or Humanist principles as an example of the kind of principles to look for?" (Banham, A Critic Writes, p. 13, originally, 1955). 9780393005998 ISBN 0393005992.

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Title: Architectural Principles of the Age of Humanism.
Publisher: New York: W. W. Norton, 1971
Binding: Soft cover

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