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A primary value in early twentieth-century Modernist architectural theory wa
A primary value in early twentieth-century Modernist architectural theory wa
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2024-01-10
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A primary value in early twentieth-century Modernist architectural theory was that of “truth to materials”, that is, it was essential that a building’s design express the “natural” character of the building materials. This emphasis would have puzzled the architects of the Italian Renaissance (sixteenth century), a period widely regarded as the apex of architectural achievement, for Renaissance architects’ designs were determined only minimally by the materials employed. The diversity of Italy’s natural resources provided Renaissance architects with a wide variety of building materials. The builders of the Pitti Palace (1558-1570) used great blocks of Tuscan stone, just as Etruscans living in the same part of Italy had done some twenty centuries earlier. Had the Florentine Renaissance builders aped the Etruscan style, it might be said that their materials determined their style, since Etruscan style matched the massive, stark, solid character of the stone. But these same materials, which so suited the massive Etruscan style, were effectively used by the Florentine Renaissance to create the most delicate and graceful of styles.
A similar example of identical materials used in contrasting styles characterizes the treatment of Roman travertine marble. When Baroque architects of seventeenth-century Rome desired a massive and solid monumental effect, they turned to travertine marble, whose “natural effect” is, indeed, that of spacious breadth and lofty, smoothly rounded surfaces. Yet during the Renaissance, this same material had been used against its “nature,” in the Florentine tradition of sharply carved detail. Italian Renaissance architecture was shaped less by the “nature” of the materials at hand than by the artistic milieu of Renaissance Italy, which included painting and sculpture as well as architecture. While Roman travertine marble may have lent itself to fine carving, the Florentine passion for fine detail is no less marked in
Florentine Renaissance painting
than in Florentine Renaissance architecture. Similarly, in the next century, the emphasis on shading and corporeal density in Baroque painting mirrored the use of Roman travertine marble in Baroque architecture to create broad shadow and powerful masses.
The ingenuity of Renaissance architects extended beyond merely using a material in a way not suggested by its outward natural appearance. If they conceived a design that called for a certain material either too expensive or difficult to work with, they made no scruple about imitating that material. Their marbles and their stones are often actually painted stucco. When the blocks of masonry with which they built were not in scale with the projected scheme, the real joints were concealed and false ones introduced. Nor were these practices confined, as some
scholars
insist, to the later and supposedly decadent phases of the art. Material, then, was utterly subservient to style. [br] The passage is primarily concerned with
选项
A、explaining the differences in quality among different kinds of building materials
B、discussing the differences among Etruscan, Florentine Renaissance, and Roman Baroque architecture
C、describing how different materials influenced architecture in different cities
D、describing the manner in which Renaissance architects often resorted to artificial materials and illusionistic effects
E、demonstrating the attitude of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Italian architects toward the use of building materials
答案
E
解析
本文的主要内容就是16世纪意大利建筑师不遵循建材的本质,同时也提及了17世纪的建筑师会体现建材的本质。选项E正确。A、B项文章重点既不是材料的差异,也不是建筑的差异,而是建筑师对材料的使用是否体现材料的本质。C项本文的主旨便是建材不会影响建筑。本选项表述相反。D项是第三段的细节。
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