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Memory and Modernity focuses on the first project of the renowned nineteenth-century French architect and theorist Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc, the restoration of the Romanesque ...
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Kruft, History of Architectural Theory
As the first comprehensive encyclopedic survey of Western architectural theory from Vitruvius to the present, this book is an essential resource for architects, ...
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For centuries, political dignitaries, scholars, and the nobility were the ones who usually had their portraits carved in stone. By the end of ...
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Passion and Control explores Dutch architectural culture of the eighteenth century, revealing the central importance of architecture to society in this period and ...
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The 18th-century rediscovery of the three archaic Greek-Doric temples in Paestum in southern Italy turned existing ideas on classical architecture upside down. The porous ...
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A summary of the ideas and buildings of the period before the French Revolution with particular reference to the roots of modern architecture. ...
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Some of the most significant currents in modern intellectual and cultural history pass by way of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1816). By choosing in ...
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Ramble, Linger, and Gaze explores a method of architectural research based on narrative dialogue and examines the garden theories and literary garden representations ...
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Originally published in 1984, The Clothing of Clio is concerned with the wide variety of ways in which the past was represented in ...
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