Education
Born and raised in New Haven, Connecticut, Scully attended Hillhouse High School.
(Scully is a pioneer of 20th century architecture. This vo...)
Scully is a pioneer of 20th century architecture. This volume is the grand sum of his career. It is not only the history of great edifices, but also a book that explores the unique dialogue between human beings and their buildings and the natural world. 500 color/b&w photos.
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(Andrea Palladio (1508-1580) may well be the single most i...)
Andrea Palladio (1508-1580) may well be the single most influential architect ever, and by conspicuously adopting his vocabulary, Michael Graves, Philip Johnson and the post-modernists have made him a byword for the 1980s and 1990s. This book contains photographs and text which disclose some of Palladio's elegant country houses - located in the north of Italy.
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(This work draws together the results of the author's teac...)
This work draws together the results of the author's teaching and research to address the essential fact of architecture and human life on earth: the relation of mankind to the natural order. Tracing the roots of Western architecture leads him to Pre-Columbian America, Egypt, and the ancient Near East; to the Greeks, who developed the most harmonious architecture ever built; the Romans, whose perfectly controlled interiors provided the means for an architecture which realized the transcendance of nature and paved the way for the splendour of the Gothic cathedral. Later chapters follow the rise of modern urbanism and with it the reinvention of the garden as a major architectural form. Professor Scully shows how Le Corbusian principles grow directly out of this relation to nature and places the skyscraper in juxtaposition with the pyramids. Vincent Scully is the author of "The Earth, the Temple and the Gods" and "Pueblo: Mountain, Village, Dance".
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Born and raised in New Haven, Connecticut, Scully attended Hillhouse High School.
At the age of 16, he entered Yale University. He earned his Bachelor degree from Yale in 1940, his Master of Arts in 1947, and his Doctor of Philosophy in 1949. He has taught classes at Yale since 1947, often to packed lecture rooms.
He is also a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Miami.
Scully officially retired from Yale in 1991, but continued giving courses there and at the University of Miami. He announced in 2009, however, at the age of 89, that he was no longer well enough to continue teaching.
Scully"s early advocacy was critical to the emergence of both Kahn and Robert Venturi as important 20th Century architects. Scully was a fierce critic of the 1963 destruction of New York"s original Pennsylvania Station, memorably writing, "One entered the city like a god.
One scuttles in now like a rat." The Earth, the Temple, and the Gods: Greek Sacred Architecture.
(Andrea Palladio (1508-1580) may well be the single most i...)
(This work draws together the results of the author's teac...)
(Scully is a pioneer of 20th century architecture. This vo...)
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