Volume 51, Number 16 · October 21, 2004
The Triumph of a Distinguished Failure
By Witold Rybczynski
The Architecture of Humanism: A Study in the History of Taste
by Geoffrey Scott
Norton, 194 pp., $12.95 (paper)
The Architecture of Humanism was first published in London in 1914. Its author, Geoffrey Scott, a twenty-nine-year-old British architecture school dropout, had been living as an expatriate in Florence, where he worked for Bernard Berenson. Scott's book was reprinted in Britain in 1924, and in the US in 1965. Now it has reappeared again, with a foreword by Henry Hope Reed and an introduction by Paul Barolsky.
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