The Lamp of Memory: Ruskin, Tradition and Architecture

Michael Wheeler/ Michael Whiteley editor

ISBN 10: 0719037107 / ISBN 13: 9780719037108

Published by Manchester University Press, 1992

About this Item

Published by Manchester University Press in 1992, here is the first hardback printing of The Lamp of Memory: Ruskin, Tradition and Architecture edited by Michael Wheeler and Nigel Whiteley. 238 pages, green cloth binding, gilt lettering, the book is in near fine condition. The dust jacket is also near fine with some very minor creasing to the front of the jacket.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Lamp of Memory: Ruskin, Tradition and Architecture
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0719037107
• ISBN 13: 9780719037108
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

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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.