Architectural theory
By: edited by Harry Francis Mallgrave
Contributors: Mallgrave, Harry Francis
Publisher: Blackwell Pub.; Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 616
Subjects: Architecture -- Philosophy
Table of contents: title: Vol. 1. An anthology from Vitruvius to 1870 (pt. I. Classicism and the Renaissance. A. The classical and medieval traditions. B. Renaissance and Baroque ideals. pt. II. Classicism in France and Britain. A. French Classicism: ancients and moderns. B. British Classicism and Palladianism. pt. III. Neoclassicism and the enlightenment. A. Early Neoclassicism. B. Greece and the Classical ideal. pt. IV. Theories of the Picturesque and the Sublime. A. Sources of the Picturesque. B. Toward a relativist Aesthetics. C. Consolidation of Picturesque theory. pt. V. The rise of historicism in the nineteenth century. A. Challenges to classicism in France, 1802-34. B. The Gothic revival in Britain, Germany, and France. C. The German style debate. D. The rise of American theory. pt. VI: Historicism in the Industrial Age. A. The battle of the styles in Britain. B. Rationalism, Eclecticism, and Realism in France. C. Tectonics and style in Germany.)