Six Lectures on Architecture
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ISBN13: 9780217992107
Paperback|9780217992107
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Ill PRINCIPLES OF ARCHITECTURAL COMPOSITION Composition is not a subject for systematic analysis. We may learn about it in the lecture- room and by reading books, but in this way we can never acquire the art of composing. As in the case of the painter or sculptor, the architect must be apprenticed. Mere work never made an artist; a great work was never produced without great working. A man can never be a great artist without great industry. The extraordinary amount of work done, and well done, by the great masters in art?work which has survived?is incomprehensible to the modern artist. A man may think that he must wait for a so-called inspiration; but the real artist will find something to do for every hour and leave inspiration to take care of itself. Inspiration will come oftener, and with greater power, when the artist works without waiting for it. Let us undertake less and work more. The mere direction of a number of draughtsmen to do our work for us is not art. As soon as the architect gives up the T-square and triangle andonly directs others, he no longer advances, but retrogrades by this method of trying to manufacture architectural designs. Nor is it honest for an architect to pretend to be the author of work that others are doing for him, any more than it would be for a painter, a sculptor, or a writer to take credit for work he has not done. There are many principles upon which the architect works and many laws which guide him in his study which it would be impossible to formulate, because he knows them intuitively. There are many vital things in the art of composition, just as there are in our everyday life, which are none the less true because we know them by intuition. The fact that we cannot formulate these things does not make them in any sense the less...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217992107 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217992102 |
| Weight | 0.27 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.18 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 74 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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