| Description |
706 pages, 95 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction: what is architectural theory? -- Vitruvius and architectural theory in antiquity -- The Vitruvian tradition and architectural theory in the Middle Ages -- Leone Battista Alberti -- Quattrocento theory after Alberti -- Vitruvian tradition in the Renaissance -- Sixteenth-century codification -- Palladio and the North Italian Humanists -- The Counter-Reformation, Baroque & Neo-classicism -- The theory of fortification -- France in the sixteenth century -- The classical synthesis in seventeenth-century France -- The foundation of the French academy of architecture and the subsequent challenge to it -- Relativist architectural aesthetics, the Enlightenment and Revolutionary architecture -- Germany and the Netherlands in the sixteenth century -- The German-speaking regions in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries -- The Italian contribution in the eighteenth century -- Eighteenth-century views of antiquity -- The role of Spain from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century -- Developments in England from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century -- Concepts of the garden -- Nineteenth-century France and the Ecole des Beaux-Arts -- Germany in the nineteenth century -- England in the nineteenth century -- The United States: from Thomas Jefferson to the Chicago School -- Germany and its neighbours: 1890s-1945 -- France: 1900-1945 -- Italy: Futurism and Rationalism -- The Soviet Union -- The United States in the first half of the twentieth century -- Since 1945. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [613]-684) and index. |
| Subject |
Architecture as Topic -- Philosophy.
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Architecture -- Historiography.
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| Indexed Term |
Architecture History |
| Added Title |
Geschichte der Architekturtheorie. English
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Architectural theory |
| ISBN |
1568980019 Princeton |
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1568980108 Princeton paperback |
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0302006036 Zwemmer |
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0302006222 Zwemmer paperback |
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