Court and Garden: From the French Hotel to the City of Modern Architecture (Graham Foundation Architecture Series)
This is a specialized account of architecture in the modern period (since 1750) by a practicing architect and professor of architecture at Harvard. Dennis's text is aimed at the architectural community and deeply indebted to the pioneering work of Colin Rowe. It makes a valuable contribution to the history of French architecture, delivering primarily a thoughtful review of the development of the French hotel (roughly translatable as townhouse), the best history of this house type in English, which then serves as entree to discussion of modern urbanism derived from the theories of Le Corbusier. Profusely illustrated and soundly researched, but of interest primarily to architects and architectural historians. Peter Kaufman, Suffolk Community Coll. Lib., Selden, N.Y.Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.