On Adam's House in Paradise: The Idea of the Primitive Hut in Architectural HistoryMuseum of Modern Art, 1972 - 221 pages "This new edition of On Adam's House in Paradise (first published by the Museum of Modern Art) incorporates all the original illustrations and several new ones, as well as additional text by the author. On Adam's House in Paradise "takes off backward through history hunting for Adam's house, the original image. En route, with wry wit and charm, Rykwert singes every generation of architectural theoreticians back to Vitruvius, but he manages to illuminate their efforts and their immolations." -- Charles Moore, Progressive Architecture. |
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... human body may serve as a model for the orders ; and finally whether the orders are an imitation of the hut and of the human body . " I have previously given an account of Durand's attempt to dispose of the body - column analogy . As ...
... human body may serve as a model for the orders ; and finally whether the orders are an imitation of the hut and of the human body . " I have previously given an account of Durand's attempt to dispose of the body - column analogy . As ...
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... human body , hominis bene figurata ratio.3 Vitruvius follows this assertion with a detailed canonic description of the relationship of parts within the human body : the canon includes the famous state- ment about the human body inside ...
... human body , hominis bene figurata ratio.3 Vitruvius follows this assertion with a detailed canonic description of the relationship of parts within the human body : the canon includes the famous state- ment about the human body inside ...
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... human body is again very important for Villalpanda , though it is given a new and almost medieval formula- tion . The proportions of the Temple are based on the perfect human body , which is the body of the Savior , who , being in a ...
... human body is again very important for Villalpanda , though it is given a new and almost medieval formula- tion . The proportions of the Temple are based on the perfect human body , which is the body of the Savior , who , being in a ...
Table des matières
FOREWORD | 8 |
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 9 |
THINKING AND DOING | 13 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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On Adam's House in Paradise: The Idea of the Primitive Hut in Architectural ... Joseph Rykwert Affichage d'extraits - 1972 |
On Adam's House in Paradise: The Idea of the Primitive Hut in Architectural ... Joseph Rykwert Aucun aperçu disponible - 1981 |
On Adam's House in Paradise, second edition: The Idea of the Primitive Hut ... Joseph Rykwert Aucun aperçu disponible - 1981 |
Expressions et termes fréquents
Algarotti analogy ancient Andrea Memmo animal antiquity Apollo appears archaic archi architects Bauhaus beauty boughs Boullée branches building built cave celebrated century ceremonial classical classical architecture Claude Perrault columns commentary construction Corbusier decorated Delphi described divine Durand dwelling earlier echo Egyptian essay essential Etruscans familiar feast of tabernacles festival Gothic architecture Greek Hegel human body Ibid ideas imitation invention Jacques-François Blondel Jewish king later Laugier laurel legend Lobkowitz Lodoli Mamurius Marduk material medieval Memmo Milizia Mishnah myth nature notion orders origins of architecture ornament Ovid Paradise Pausanias perfect Perrault Piranesi Plutarch primitive hut Quatremère Quatremère de Quincy reason reconstruction reed reference rites ritual Roman roof Rousseau Ruskin sacred says Scripture seems Semper sense shelter shrine stone suggests tecture Temple in Jerusalem theme theorists theory things Ti'amat timber tion tomb treatise tree vault Villalpanda Viollet-le-Duc Vitruvian Vitruvius Vitruvius's walls waninga wood writers