Title The future of the past : a conservation ethic for architecture, urbanism, and historic preservation / Steven W. Semes ; in association with the Institute of Classical Architecture and Classical America

Edition First edition Published New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2009] ©2009

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Description 272 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm Contents Acknowledgments -- 1. New and old architecture together -- 2. The principles of traditional architecture -- 3. How traditional architecture works -- 4. The modernist paradigm -- 5. A brief history of preservation philosophy -- 6. Historicism and the search for an architecture of our time -- 7. Preservation after historicism -- 8. Literal replication -- 9. Invention within a style -- 10. Abstract reference -- 11. Intentional opposition -- 12. A conservation ethic -- Bibliography -- Index Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Architecture and history. Architecture -- Psychological aspects. Historic preservation. Author Institute of Classical Architecture and Classical America. LC no. 2009017360 ISBN 9780393732443 hardcover

Other Titles Conservation ethic for architecture, urbanism, and historic preservation

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