Vincent Scully (1920–2017)
Auteur de Architecture: The Natural and the Manmade
A propos de l'auteur
Vincent Joseph Scully Jr. was born in New Haven, Connecticut on August 21, 1920. He received a bachelor's degree in English from Yale University. During World War II, he served in the Marine Corps. He received a Ph.D. in art history from Yale University in 1949. His thesis, The Shingle Style: afficher plus Architectural Theory and Design from Richardson to the Origins of Wright, was published as a book in 1955. He taught at Yale from 1947 until 2009. He wrote several books during his lifetime including American Architecture and Urbanism; The Earth, the Temple, and the Gods: Greek Sacred Architecture; Pueblo: Mountain, Village, Dance; Architecture: The Natural and the Manmade; and Yale in New Haven: Architecture and Urbanism. He received the National Medal of Arts in 2004. He died from complications of Parkinson's disease on November 30, 2017 at the age of 97. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
Crédit image: Uncredited image from Yale University website
Œuvres de Vincent Scully
The Shingle Style and the Stick Style: Architectural Theory and Design from Downing to the Origins of Wright (1955) 136 exemplaires
The Earth, the Temple, and the Gods: Greek Sacred Architecture, Revised Edition (1753) 111 exemplaires
New World Visions of Household Gods and Sacred Places: American Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art 1650-1914 (1988) 33 exemplaires
Architecture of the American Summer: The Flowering of the Shingle Style (Documents of American Architecture) (1989) 27 exemplaires
Masters of World Architecture (Six volume set: Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, Pier Luigi Nervi, Antonio Gaudi,… (1960) 12 exemplaires
The Great Ages of World Architecture: Roman, Gothic, Baroque and Rococo, Modern (4 volume set) (1961) 12 exemplaires
A Mediaeval Mystic: A Short Account of the Life and Writings of Blessed John Ruysbroeck, Canon Regular of Groenendael… (2009) 5 exemplaires
Makers of Contemporary Architecture: Philip Johnson, Kenzo Tange, R. Buckminster Fuller, Louis I. Kahn, Eero Saarinen (1962) 5 exemplaires
Alexander Gorlin : buildings and projects 3 exemplaires
The Cottage Style: An Organic Development in Later Nineteenth-Century Wooden Domestic Architecture in the Eastern… 1 exemplaire
Buildings without souls (loose pages from magazine) 1 exemplaire
Architecture 1 exemplaire
Michael Graves : Buildings and projects 1966-1981 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
The Ancient Americas: Art from Sacred Landscapes (Art & Design) (1992) — Contributeur — 70 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Scully, Vincent
- Nom légal
- Scully, Vincent Joseph, Jr.
- Date de naissance
- 1920-08-21
- Date de décès
- 2017-11-30
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- New Haven, Connecticut, USA
- Lieu du décès
- Lynchburg, Virginia, USA
- Cause du décès
- complications of Parkinson's disease
- Lieux de résidence
- Lynchburg, Virginia, USA
- Études
- Yale University (BA|1940)
Yale University (MA|1947)
Yale University (PhD|1949)
Hillhouse High School - Professions
- art historian
professor of art history
architectural historian
author
architecture professor
lecturer - Relations
- Kirk, Terry (student)
- Organisations
- Yale University
Elizabethan Club
Jonathan Edwards College - Prix et distinctions
- Alice Davis Hitchcock Award (1952)
Vincent Scully Award (1999)
J. C. Nichols Prize (2003)
National Medal of Arts (2004)
Membres
Critiques
Listes
Prix et récompenses
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 32
- Aussi par
- 4
- Membres
- 1,657
- Popularité
- #15,509
- Évaluation
- 3.9
- Critiques
- 6
- ISBN
- 55
- Langues
- 4
That said, the material it covers, and the view it propounds (in all of its stilted language and mind-numbing detail) is fascinating. The core thesis that the natural surroundings of a Greek temple are not just he setting, or background that the temple plays against, but is in many ways more important than the structures themselves is fascinating, and so foreign to how I am used to thinking of architecture in general.
Beyond that, I appreciate the idea that so much of the sacred and civic architecture of the West is rooted in ideology and theology that is ultimately completely different and foreign to the purposes it is made to serve.
lastly, as an aside, I kept thinking that the book is ripe for adaption into a VR program. Frankly, the text could be left more or less as is -- but being able to "see" and interact with the landscapes, ruins (and perhaps even digital recreations of as-built conditions) would make the material much, much more accessible than the dated, small, black and white photos frequently referenced in the appendix.
A tough read but worth it.
(2023 Review 8)… (plus d'informations)