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Guarino Guarini
Baroque Architecture and Scholasticism
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The seventeenth-century polymath Guarino Guarini is today mainly remembered as one of the most prominent Baroque architects. However, he was also active in a number of other fields such as philosophy, mathematics and astronomy. Philosophically, Guarini is an exceptionally interesting figure because of his efforts to adjust his Counter-reformation Aristotelianism to the latest discoveries of the ongoing scientific revolution. While his philosophy belonged to so-called âsecond scholasticism,â unlike most other scholastic philosophers of the era he followed and was intensely interested in the latest scientific breakthroughs. The book analyses how his philosophical and scientific interests impacted his views on architectural theory and architectural design.
Branko MitrovicÌ , PhD (Architecture, 1996), PhD (Philosophy, 2007), is Professor of Architectural History and Theory, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway. He has (co-) authored ten books, among which Learning from Palladio and Serene Greed of the Eye: Leon Battista Alberti and the Philosophical Foundations of Renaissance Architectural Theory and received the Humboldt Research Award in 2008.
Academic institutions, scholars and post-graduate students working in the fields of architectural history, art history, history of science and history of philosophy. Keywords: Architecture, Architectural theory, Architectural history, Baroque, Guarino Guarini, Turin, History of philosophy, Second scholasticism, Counter-reformation, Counter-reformation philosophy, Scientific revolution, History of astronomy, Theories of light, Theories of vision, Placita philosophica.