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Vincent Scully has shaped not only how we view the evolution of
architecture in the twentieth century but also the course of that
evolution itself. Combining the modes of historian and critic in
unique and compelling ways--with an audience that reaches from
students and scholars to professional architects and ardent
amateurs--Scully has profoundly influenced the way architecture is
thought about and made.
This extensively illustrated and elegantly designed volume
distills Scully's incalculable contribution. Neil Levine, a former
student of Scully's, selects twenty essays that reveal the breadth
and depth of Scully's work from the 1950s through the 1990s. The
pieces are included for their singular contribution to our
understanding of modern architecture as well as their relative
unavailability to current readers. Levine offers a perceptive
overview of Scully's distinguished career and introduces each
essay, skillfully setting the scholarly and cultural scene. The
selections address almost all of modern architecture's major themes
and together go a long way toward defining what constitutes the
contemporary experience of architecture and urbanism. Each is
characteristically Scully--provocative, yet precise in detail and
observation, written with passionate clarity. They document
Scully's seminal views on the relationship between the natural and
the built environment and trace his progressively intense concern
with the fabric of the street and of our communities. The essays
also highlight Scully's engagement with the careers of so many of
the twentieth century's most significant architects, from Frank
Lloyd Wright and Louis Kahn to Robert Venturi.
In the tradition of great intellectual biographies, this finely
made book chronicles our most influential architectural historian
and critic. It is a gift to architecture and its history.
THE object of the following unpretentious little volume is to give
a simple and readable account in English of the life and writings
of a remarkable Flemish Mystic of the fourteenth century, a
contemporary of our own Walter Hilton. Though his memory and honour
have never faded in his own native Belgium, and though France and
Germany have vied with each other in spreading his teaching and
singing his praises, the very name of Blessed John Ruysbroeck is
practically unknown this side of the water. We are acquainted with
only one small work in English dealing directly with the Saint or
his work at all, viz. Reflections from the Mirror of Mystic, giving
the briefest sketch of his life and some short extracts from his
writings as translated from the French rendering of Ernest Hello.
The original authorities for the history of Ruysbroeck are
practically reduced to one, the biography by Henry Pomerius, a
Canon Regular of Groenendael. It is certain that a disciple of John
Ruysbroeck, John of Scoenhoven, also of Groenendael, who undertook
the defence of Blessed John's Writings against Gerson, composed a
short biography, but this, vas embodied in the, york of Pomerius,
and thereby as a separate volume fell out of use and memory.
Pomerius had Scoenhoven's book to work upon, and some of
Ruysbroeck's contemporaries were still living at Groenendael when
he composed his biography there. The brief references by the
Venerable Thomas a Kempis in his Vita Gerardi magni are likewise of
great interest and intrinsic worth.
This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the
classic, timeless works that have stood the test of time and offer
them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so
that everyone can enjoy them.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
The object of the following unpretentious little volume is to give
a simple and readable account in English of the life and writings
of a remarkable Flemish Mystic of the fourteenth century, a
contemporary of our own Walter Hilton. Though his memory and honour
have never faded in his own native Belgium, and though France and
Germany have vied with each other in spreading his teaching and
singing his praises, the very name of Blessed John Ruysbroeck is
practically unknown this side of the water. We are acquainted with
only one small work in English dealing directly with the Saint or
his work at all, viz. Reflections from the Mirror of Mystic, giving
the briefest sketch of his life and some short extracts from his
writings as translated from the French rendering of Ernest Hello.
The original authorities for the history of Ruysbroeck are
practically reduced to one, the biography by Henry Pomerius, a
Canon Regular of Groenendael, entitled De Origine monasterii
Viridisvallis una cum vitis B. Joannis Rusbrochii primi prioris
hujus monasterii et aliquot coaetaneorum ejus, re-edited by the
Bollandists, Brussels, 1885. It is certain that a disciple of John
Ruysbroeck, John of Scoenhoven, also of Groenendael, who undertook
the defence of Blessed John's writings against Gerson, composed a
short biography, but this was embodied in the work of Pomerius, and
thereby as a separate volume fell out of use and memory. Pomerius
had Scoenhoven's MS. to work upon, and some of Ruysbroeck's
contemporaries were still living at Groenendael when he composed
his biography there. The brief references by the Venerable Thomas a
Kempis in his Vita Gerardi Magni are likewise of great interest and
intrinsic worth.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
As the definitive study of the complex inspirations and cultural
influences that were fused in the Shingle Style of wooden suburban
and resort buildings of the period 1872 to 1889, Mr. Scully's book
has received much critical acclaim. He presents the published
designs and the written statements of the architects, as well as
contemporary criticisms of the buildings to analyze the development
of the Shingle Style from Richardson's early work to Wright's first
house in Oak Park. An analysis of the Colonial Revival is central
to the work, which is now enhanced by the addition of an extensive
related chapter on the "Stick Style" of the mid-century. A new
preface has been added and the bibliography and footnotes are
brought up to date. "The last section of the book, on the origins
and early development of Frank Lloyd Wright, is one of Scully's
best. This chapter...shows a mature understanding and a just
handling of the academic tradition and of the early work of one of
America's greatest architects."-The Art Bulletin "Scully's research
is exhaustive, his scholarship impeccable. His illustrations alone
form a gold mine of information on the period."-Journal of the
Society of Architectural Historians
The vast and beautiful landscape of the American Southwest has long
haunted artists and writers seeking to understand the mysteries of
the deep affinity between the land and the Native Americans who
have lived on it for centuries. In this pioneering study, art
historian Vincent Scully explores the inhabitants' understanding of
the natural world in an entirely original way--by observing and
analyzing the complex yet visible relationships between the
landscape of mountain and desert, the ancient ruins and the
pueblos, and the ceremonial dances that take place with them.
Scully sees these intricate dances as the most profound works of
art yet produced on the American continent--as human action
entwined with the natural world and framed by architectural forms,
in which the Pueblos express their belief in the unity of all
earthly things.
Scully's observations, presented in lively prose and exciting
photographs, are based on his own personal experiences of the
Southwest; on his exploration of the region of the Rio Grande and
the Hopi mesas; on his witnessing of the dances and ceremonies of
the Pueblos and others; and on his research into their culture and
history. He draws on the vast literature inspired by the Native
Americans--from early exploration narratives to the writing of D.
H. Lawrence to recent scholarship--to enrich and support his unique
approach to the subject.
To this second edition Scully has added a new preface that raises
issues of preservation and development. He has also written an
extensive postscript that reassesses the relationship between
nature and culture in Native American tradition and its relevance
to contemporary architecture and landscape.
Coming to Pueblo architecture as he does from a provocative study
of sacred architecture in ancient Greece, Scully has much to say
that is both striking and moving of the Pueblo attitudes toward
sacred places, the arrangement of structures in space, the lives of
men and beasts, and man's relation to rain, earth,
vegetation.--Robert M. Adams, New York Review of Books
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