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Architectural Criteria & French Traditions
It is notorious that our present age, for all the lip service that it pays to structural and economic considerations and the sanctity of the program when it theorizes about architecture, tends to give undue weight to pictorial or sculptural criteria when it judges individual buildings. Photography and the illustrated press are sometimes blamed for this. Mr. Collins, in an address to the annual meeting of the Province of Quebec Architectural Association, shows that the trouble has deeper roots, which reach back three centuries to the establishment of the French Académie de Peinture, Sculpture et Architecture in Rome. He points out that the so-called “beaux-arts” system in France, far from being characteristically and traditionally French, is essentially Italian, and suggests that the Quebec Provincial Government's Report on Architectural Education may well be a major factor leading to a revival of a truly French tradition in architecture—and in France itself.
Architectural Criteria & French Traditions
It is notorious that our present age, for all the lip service that it pays to structural and economic considerations and the sanctity of the program when it theorizes about architecture, tends to give undue weight to pictorial or sculptural criteria when it judges individual buildings. Photography and the illustrated press are sometimes blamed for this. Mr. Collins, in an address to the annual meeting of the Province of Quebec Architectural Association, shows that the trouble has deeper roots, which reach back three centuries to the establishment of the French Académie de Peinture, Sculpture et Architecture in Rome. He points out that the so-called “beaux-arts” system in France, far from being characteristically and traditionally French, is essentially Italian, and suggests that the Quebec Provincial Government's Report on Architectural Education may well be a major factor leading to a revival of a truly French tradition in architecture—and in France itself.
Architectural Criteria & French Traditions
Collins, Peter (author)
Journal of Architectural Education ; 21 ; 67-71
1966-08-01
5 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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