How is history used?

History is like the evidence that shows the innovation from the past. The history can be used not only in physical terms, but also in ideal and conceptual terms. By looking at Brunelleschi, Le Corbusier & Venturi, I feel that we can get the idea of how history had been used differently.

Brunelleschi, Renaissance architect, who worked on dome at Duomo of Florence studied from the history by looking at Pantheon, which has lasted since Roman period, in terms of construction and structure in order to see how it was built as well as how it stayed up.

In modernism when those architectural principle from the past was replaced by minimal form, Le Corbusier somehow used history with his architecture. In this case, what he brought was not about the how the building itself stayed, but it was about how human fits into the building. Corbusier came up with "Modulor" which has to do with "scale & proportion" and could relate back to Vitruvius and Vitruvian Man of Leonardo da  Vinci.

Then when modernism came to an end, Verturi went beyond by bringing the principle of modernism as a history and change some of it to be different and more suitable to people's lifestyle as we can see from "Learning From Las Vegas". In this case, Venturi tried to make sense of "hybrid" instead of "pure". Also,  he rather focused more on the expression on exterior form than functions of the building.