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This is precisely the premise that under-writes two important new books on architecture and garden design: Vincent Scully's Architecture: The Natural and the Manmade, and a collection of essays edited by Monique Mosser and Georges Teyssot entitled The Architecture of Western Gardens. Both present a formidable facade to...
Vincent Scully, Professor of the history of art emeritus at Yale University and one of this century's most penetrating and influential writers on architecture, offers Architecture as an eloquent synopsis of a distinguished career. It covers the familiar terrain of the history of Western architecture (from the Pyramids of...
Nonetheless, Scully does not tread wearily through the book's itinerary (ancient Greek and Roman architecture, the Gothic cathedrals of France, Renaissance Florence, Versailles, Vaux-le-Vicomte, etc...); rather, he takes to it with abandon, incorporating a sensitivity to the literary and cultural context that surrounds the buildings he studies...
"The whole premise of his work didn't come from the place but from somewhere else," said Evan Yassky, a Harvard graduate student in architecture.
"I was impressed with the discussion of form with respect to landscape, with special attention to values in urban form," said David DeSola, a MIT architecture student. "It's unusual to pay particular focus to the environment."