Horatio Greenough And The Law Of Adaptation

Into the Greenough reading, it talks about the life of Horatio Greenough and the Law of Adaptation. Horatio was born 1805-1852 and was a well-educated and well-taveled neoclassical sculptor from Boston. He is best known for the seated Marble statue of George Wastington now located in the museum of American Art. He used a pseudonym, Horace Bender and published ideas on race, evolution, architecture and deisgn and the arts as the “The Travels, Obersversations, and Experience of a Yankee Stonecutter. That book was published the year of his death. He argued that beauty in architecture and design was a result of fitness to function. It is one of the earlist statemnts of the doctrine of funcionalism. He had a comparison of the evolution f design