The future of the past
Subtitle: a conservation ethic for architecture, urbanism, and historic preservation
By: Steven W. Semes.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780393732443
Subjects: Architecture and history; Architecture -- Psychological aspects; Historic preservation
Other titles: Conservation ethic for architecture, urbanism, and historic preservation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgments; title: 1. New and old architecture together; title: 2. The principles of traditional architecture; title: 3. How traditional architecture works; title: 4. The modernist paradigm; title: 5. A brief history of historic preservation philosophy; title: 6. Historicism and the search for an architecture of our time; title: 7. Preservation after historicism; title: 8. Literal replication; title: 9. Invention within a style; title: 10. Abstract reference; title: 11. Intentional opposition; title: 12. A conservation ethic; title: Bibliography; title: Index.