Radical Classicism
Subtitle: The Architecture of Quinlan Terry
Publisher: Rizzoli
Published: April 25, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780847828067
Subjects: Individual architects; Individual Architects Of The 20th Century; Architecture; Individual Architect; Architecture / Individual Architect; 20th century; Classicism in architecture; England; United States
Description: "Quinlan Terry is at home in every traditional style, from Classical Greek to Roman, Gothic to Renaissance, and Baroque to Neoclassical. And yet, though linked with a long tradition, his work is, for its innovation and invention, inescapably modern. In contradistinction to the "signature buildings" by which leading Modernist architects come to be known - buildings frequently to be marked for their structural weaknesses and impractibility, for their immediate glamour and subsequent physical deterioration - Terry's work stands as an elegant and powerful argument for an architecutre built to last centuries."--Jacket.