| Description |
706 pages, 95 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction: What is architectural theory? -- 1. Vitruvius and architectural theory in Antiquity -- 2. The Vitruvian tradition and architectural theory in the Middle Ages -- 3. Leone Battista Alberti -- 4. Quattrocento theory after Alberti -- 5. Vitruvian tradition in the Renaissance -- 6. Sixteenth-century codification -- 7. Palladio and the North Italian Humanists -- 8. The counter-Reformation, Baroque and Neo-classicism -- 9. The theory of fortification --10. France in the sixteenth century -- 11. The Classical synthesis in seventeenth-century France --12. The foundation of the French Academy of Architecture and the subsequent challenge to it -- 13. Relativist architectural aesthetics, the Enlightenment and Revolutionary architecture -- 14. Germany and the Netherlands in the sixteenth century -- 15. The German-speaking regions in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries -- 16. The Italian contribution in the eighteenth century -- 17. Eighteenth-century views of Antiquity |
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18. The role of Spain from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century -- 19. Developments in England from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century -- 20. Concepts of the garden -- 21. Nineteenth-century France and the Ecole des Beaux-Arts -- 22. Germany in the nineteenth century -- 23. England in the nineteenth century -- 24. The United States: from Thomas Jefferson to the Chicago School -- 25. Germany and its neighbours: 1890s-1945 -- 26. France: 1900-1945 -- 27. Italy: Futurism and Rationalism --28. The Soviet Union -- 29. The United States in the first half of the twentieth century -- 30. Since 1945 |
| Analysis |
Architecture History |
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Architecture History |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [613]-684) and index |
| Notes |
Translation of: Geschichte der Architekturtheorie : von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart. München : Beck, 1985 |
| Subject |
Architecture -- Historiography.
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Architecture -- Philosophy.
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| Author |
Callander, Elsie, translator
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Taylor, Ron (Ron B.), translator
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Wood, Antony, translator
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| LC no. |
93050746 93060099 |
| ISBN |
0302006036 (Zwemmer) |
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0302006222 (Zwemmer : pbk.) |
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1568980019 (Princeton) |
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1568980108 (Princeton : pbk.) |
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