Goethe and Alberti : organic unity in nature and architecture

Author

Eck, Caroline van

Document type

Article (journal)

Language

English

Source

Structurist. 1995, Vol. 35-36, p. 20-26, 3 ill.

ISSN

0081-6027

Abstract (en)

Shows that Goethe came very close, in his use of morphological concepts, to the way the renaissance architect and theorist Alberti considered the relation between architecture and living nature : they both saw purposive unity as the common characteristic of the products of both nature and art. Through a comparison of Goethe's writings with those of Alberti, sheds light on the relation between the mathematical and the organic in classical architecture.

Subject (en)

• General history of art -- 1400-1800 -- Architecture
• Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832
• Architectural theory
• Organicism
• Alberti, Leon Battista, 1404-1472
• Germany
• 1700-1800
• Comparison
• Italy

Subject (fr)

• Histoire générale de l'art -- 1400-1800 -- Architecture
• Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832
• Théorie de l'architecture
• Organicisme
• Alberti, Leon Battista, 1404-1472
• Allemagne
• 1700-1800
• Comparaison
• Italie

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier19990701-00208797

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