The Architecture of Humanism: A Study in the History of Taste

Title: The Architecture of Humanism: A Study in the History of Taste

Author: Geoffrey Scott

Publisher: Park Street Press

Publication Year: 1924

ISBN:  9780393007343

The Architecture of Humanism offers a brilliant analysis of the theories and ideas behind much of nineteenth- and twentieth-century architecture. It discusses the classical tradition as reflected in the architecture of Renaissance and Baroque Italy and the role given the human body in that tradition.