The Lamp of Memory: Ruskin, Tradition and Architecture

Wheeler, Michael

ISBN 10: 0719037107 / ISBN 13: 9780719037108

Published by see below, 1992

About this Item

1992 Manchester University hardcover edition. Light reading wear else very good condition.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Lamp of Memory: Ruskin, Tradition and Architecture
• Publisher: see below
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0719037107
• ISBN 13: 9780719037108
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Architecture

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Synopsis

This work concerns the concept of tradition in Ruskin's work on architecture in the 19th century, the implications of his work for architecture today and the issue of tradition in contemporary architecture. His approach to the whole question of why and how we should build is explored. The book reflects an exhibition of the same title and draws in the same way as it does upon the fact that Ruskin's ideas were expressed through drawings, photographs, collections, letters, diary entries, public lectures and private interventions in debates as well as through the more conventional form for expressing seminal ideas, that of books.