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Is architecture in a state of crisis? Or are the critics simply in a state of confusion? Either way, the problems of architecture today are rooted in the history of architectural ideas. Those ideas€”from the Picturesque to the Modern Movement; from the Neo-Classicism and the Gothic Revival to New Brutalism and Post-Modernism€”form the basis of this original and highly readable book. Ranging widely over English architecture during the last two hundred years€”Georgian, Victorian, Edwardian, Modern€”The Dilemma of Style explores the way in which generations of architects and theorists have searched for a key to the conundrum of style. Richly illustrated and densely argued, with scores of quotations and hundreds of references, this is not another history of English architecture: it is almost an encyclopaedia of architectural ideas.This challenging book confronts one of the central problems of architectural theory: the nature€”and necessity€”of st
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Joe Mordaunt Crook, is a celebrated architectural historian; he is a former Slade Professor and Waynflete Lecturer at the University Oxford.
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The subject of this book is really English Victorian architecture from 1840 to 1900, an area in which Crook ( William Burges and the High Victorian Dream ) is expert. Here he threshes out the contributions of Ruskin, Viollet-le-Duc, and others, and briefly extends his argument back into the late 18th century and up to the present. But despite its narrow scope this is an important book, one of a very few that explore in depth 19th-century architectural discourse. It is aimed at specialists and is far more detailed than Robert MacLeod's Style and Society (Riba, 1971), which covers much the same ground. Peter Kaufman, Suffolk Community Coll. Libs., Selden, N.Y.
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- PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press
- Publication date1987
- ISBN 10 0226121194
- ISBN 13 9780226121192
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- Edition number1
- Number of pages348
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