Abstract
![CDATA[J. S. Bach composed a cantata every week for Sunday Mass during his time as cantor at St. Thomas’s church in Leipzig. By doing that he was earning an honest life, being of great use for the Church and the congregation, and composing some of the best music of all times. The idea of art for art’s sake only emerged in force with Romanticism and, in spite of very serious attempts, is still not easy to apply it to architecture. Before being polluted by a late whiff of Romanticism, architectural theory was easy and straightforward. Socrates, Vitruvius, Vasari, Sullivan and Semper pretty much agreed. They said it in different ways from Artis sola domina necesitas to form follows function. Essentially architecture has, first and foremost, to serve a need or human needs. Both the technical aspects and the aesthetics must follow need in an economical way. The teaching of architecture followed, to a large extent, this principle. Architectural problems had to be solved in a clever, logical way, making use of appropriate technical knowledge and artistic sensibility.]]
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Papers International Workshop COAC-ETSAB, Barcelona, 4-6 June 2014. Session 1 |
Publisher | Universitat Politecnica de Cataluny |
Number of pages | 6 |
ISBN (Print) | 9788469719565 |
Publication status | Published - 2014 |
Event | International Workshop COAC-ETSAB - Duration: 1 Jan 2014 → … |
Conference
Conference | International Workshop COAC-ETSAB |
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Period | 1/01/14 → … |
Keywords
- architecture
- study and teaching (higher)