The South in Architecture - The Dancy Lectures Alabama College 1941

Author:   Lewis Mumford
Publisher:   Budge Press
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9781406770919


Pages:   156
Publication Date:   01 March 2007
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THE SOUTH IN ARCHITECTURE THE SOUTH IN ARCHITECTURE THE D AN C Y LECTURES ALABAMA COLLEGE 1941 BY LEWIS MUMFORD HARCOURT, BRACE AND COMPANY, NEW YORK CONTENTS LECTURE ONE The Basis for American Form 3 LECTURE TWO The Universalism of Thomas Jefferson 43 LECTURE THREE The Regionalism of H. H. Richardson 79 LECTURE FOUR The Social Task of Architecture 111 FOREWORD The several chapters of this volume were originally prepared and delivered by the author at Alabama College in April, 1941, as the second series of Dancy Lectures. They are now presented to a larger audience in f ulnllment of the larger purpose to which the Dancy endowment has been dedicated namely, to foster the search for meanings in the various records of South ern culture, especially as that culture is related to the national development. To this quest Lewis Mumford in his Dancy lectures has made a contribution of rare integrity and insight. Speaking with dispassionate eloquence, he has added grace and dignity to scholarship, and, projecting his philosophy of architecture into the future as well as the past of the South, he has broadened the base for future criticism in this field and has, we trust, illumi nated the path of progress. A. W. VAUGHAN CHAIRMAN FACULTY COMMITTEE ON THE DANCY LECTURES June, 1941 Alabama College Montevallo, Alabama THE SOUTH IN ARCHITECTURE LECTURE ONE THE BASIS FOR AMERICAN FORM Only a very great desire to know more intimately the life and culture of the South could have tempted me to accept the invitation to visit this college and engage in discourse on a Southern theme. For I must tell you frankly that I come more as a student than as a teacher, and though the main subject of these lectures, inaccordance with the stipulations of the Dancy bequest, is the work and influence of two great Southern architects, what I have to say about them will necessarily lack some of that understanding which only a native Southerner, or one who had long immersed himself in the life of the South, could give. I can make no pretensions to such intimacy and I had rather show myself openly ignorant of matters that may be a commonplace to you, than to acquire too cheaply the sort of knowledge which guidebooks and handbooks may give. When I ex plained my limitations and expressed doubts about them to Dr. Vaughan, he was kind enough to treat 3 THE SOUTH IN ARCHITECTURE them almost as virtues and this alone gives me the courage to deal with Jefferson and Richardson with the perspective and the point of view of an outsider, one who is more conscious of their influence on the East and North and West of his country than upon the region that gave birth to them. And, I must confess, only a special honor like this invitation to give the Dancy Lectures could have per suaded me to turn aside from the immediate crisis of the day to prepare the present series. There have heen times during the past few months when I felt that I must apologize to myself, if not to this audi ence, for undertaking to divert their thoughts, even for a few brief hours, from the disasters which now impend over the entire world disasters whose scope is so vast and whose ultimate results may be so tragic to the human race at large, that few of us, even the most far-sighted, even the most vigilant, have fully taken them in. Though we Americans have voted bil lions of dollars for armament and aid in a sort of stunned resignation, we are farfrom understanding the lessons of the last few years, and our leaders have not yet shown themselves ready to act with the boldness and decision that these times need. We un derstand as little as the Scandinavian nations under 4

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Author:   Lewis Mumford
Publisher:   Budge Press
Imprint:   Budge Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 0.90cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.204kg
ISBN:  

9781406770919


ISBN 10:   1406770914
Pages:   156
Publication Date:   01 March 2007
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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