Preface

Introduction
Harry Francis Mallgrave and Eleftherios Ikonomou

On the Optical Sense of Form: A Contribution to Aesthetics
Robert Vischer

Preface
The Spatial Understanding of Forms
Visual Sensation
Imagination
Feeling and Emotion
The Imagining Will
The Artist
Artistic Reshaping

Observations on the Nature and History of Architecture
Conrad Fiedler

Prolegomena to a Psychology of Architecture
Heinrich Wölfflin
Psychological Basis
The Theme of Architecture
Form and Its Moments
Characteristics of Proportions
Characteristics of Horizontal Articulation
Characteristics of Vertical Articulation
Ornament
Principles of Historical Judgment

What Is the Cause of Perpetual Style Change in Architecture?
Adolf Göller

The Problem of Form in the Fine Arts
Adolf Hildebrand
Introduction
Visual and Kinesthetic Ideas
Form and Effect
The Idea of Space and Its Expression in the Appearance
The Idea of Surface and Depth
The Concept of Relief
Form as an Expression of Function
Stone Sculpture

The Essence of Architectural Creation
August Schmarsow

Bibliographies

Biographies

Index