Showing posts with label art vs building. Show all posts
Showing posts with label art vs building. Show all posts
Issue #3: Detail
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| Amiens Cathedral |
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| Amiens Cathedral |
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| France Chârtres, Notre-Dame Cathedral, Section reconstruction |
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| Chrysler Building in Manhattan-scape |
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| Chrysler |
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| Empire State Building |
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| Blade Runner |
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| Blade Runner Art |
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| Blade Runner Art |
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| Blade Runner Art |
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You cannot clothe the petty things of life with majesty
"Those tenements and office buildings of which you speak can be made artistic I suppose; but they cannot inspire great art. Your office buildings and factories and stores are matters of percentage. Art is not. Your theaters...are also per cent affairs, where the curious and idle make exchanges with..."
Architecture has its origin in the material needs of mankind, and these, must necessarily control its development. It has furthermore to deal with the stern laws of gravitation and of the strength of materials, to whose behests all its manifestations must be subordinated. In these aspects, then, it is purely utilitarian, and if it stops here, is not an art, but a science or a trade; it is mere building or engineering.
- The Battle of the Styles: Part I, Architectural Record, Vol. I, No. 3, Jan-Mar 1892, pp. 265-275. A.D.F. Hamlin
- The Battle of the Styles: Part I, Architectural Record, Vol. I, No. 3, Jan-Mar 1892, pp. 265-275. A.D.F. Hamlin
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