Vincent Scully (1920–2017)
Autor(a) de Architecture: The Natural and the Manmade
About the Author
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: mostrar mais 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) mostrar menos
Image credit: Uncredited image from Yale University website
Obras por Vincent Scully
The Shingle Style and the Stick Style: Architectural Theory and Design from Downing to the Origins of Wright (1955) 136 exemplares
The Earth, the Temple, and the Gods: Greek Sacred Architecture, Revised Edition (1753) 111 exemplares
New World Visions of Household Gods and Sacred Places: American Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art 1650-1914 (1988) 33 exemplares
Architecture of the American Summer: The Flowering of the Shingle Style (Documents of American Architecture) (1989) 27 exemplares
Masters of World Architecture (Six volume set: Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, Pier Luigi Nervi, Antonio Gaudi,… (1960) 12 exemplares
The Great Ages of World Architecture: Roman, Gothic, Baroque and Rococo, Modern (4 volume set) (1961) 12 exemplares
A Mediaeval Mystic: A Short Account of the Life and Writings of Blessed John Ruysbroeck, Canon Regular of Groenendael… (2009) 5 exemplares
Makers of Contemporary Architecture: Philip Johnson, Kenzo Tange, R. Buckminster Fuller, Louis I. Kahn, Eero Saarinen (1962) 5 exemplares
Alexander Gorlin : buildings and projects 3 exemplares
Architecture 1 exemplar
Associated Works
The Ancient Americas: Art from Sacred Landscapes (Art & Design) (1992) — Contribuidor — 70 exemplares
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome canónico
- Scully, Vincent
- Nome legal
- Scully, Vincent Joseph, Jr.
- Data de nascimento
- 1920-08-21
- Data de falecimento
- 2017-11-30
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- New Haven, Connecticut, USA
- Local de falecimento
- Lynchburg, Virginia, USA
- Causa da morte
- complications of Parkinson's disease
- Locais de residência
- Lynchburg, Virginia, USA
- Educação
- Yale University (BA|1940)
Yale University (MA|1947)
Yale University (PhD|1949)
Hillhouse High School - Ocupações
- art historian
professor of art history
architectural historian
author
architecture professor
lecturer - Relações
- Kirk, Terry (student)
- Organizações
- Yale University
Elizabethan Club
Jonathan Edwards College - Prémios e menções honrosas
- Alice Davis Hitchcock Award (1952)
Vincent Scully Award (1999)
J. C. Nichols Prize (2003)
National Medal of Arts (2004)
Membros
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 32
- Also by
- 4
- Membros
- 1,657
- Popularidade
- #15,509
- Avaliação
- 3.9
- Críticas
- 6
- ISBN
- 55
- Línguas
- 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)… (mais)