Emergence of Modern Architecture: A Documentary History from 1000 to 1810 - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415260248 ISBN 13: 9780415260244

Publisher: Routledge, 2004

Synopsis

A cognitive history of the emergence of modern architecture. Cutting across disciplinarian and institutional divisions as we know them today, this book reconstructs developments within the framework of a cognitive history of the past. Modern is here taken to mean the radical re-thinking of architecture from the end of the tenth century in Europe to the end of the eighteenth century. Among the key debates that mark the period are those that oppose tradition to innovation, canon to discovery, geometrical formality to natural picturesqueness, the functional to the hedonistic.

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Lefaivre, Liane; Tzonis, Alexander

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415260248
• ISBN 13: 9780415260244
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 552
• Editor: Lefaivre Liane, Tzonis Alexander