Modern Architectural Theory
Subtitle: A Historical Survey, 16731968
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: April 18, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 522
ISBN-13: 9780521793063
Subjects: History; Architecture; General; Planning; Architecture / General; Architecture, Modern; Philosophy
First sentence: Architectural thought in France at the start of the seventeenth century, like that in Italy and Spain, was predicated on the notion that the art of architecture participated in a divinely sanctioned cosmology or natural order: a stable grammar of eternally valid forms, numbers, and proportional relations transmitted to the present from ancient times.