Born Under Saturn is a classic work of scholarship written with a light and winning touch. Margot and Rudolf Wittkower explore the history ...
Continue Reading βFocusing on the principal architects of that time-from Alberti to Palladio-this bestselling classic explains the true significance of certain architectural forms, bringing to ...
Continue Reading βThe principle of the “lesser evil,” which asserts that it is acceptable to pursue an undesirable course of action in order to prevent ...
Continue Reading βWritten from a neo-Marxist point of view by a prominent Italian architectural historian, Architecture and Utopia leads the reader beyond architectural form into ...
Continue Reading βThroughout history and around the world, people have interacted with works of art as if they were living beings rather than static objects. ...
Continue Reading βAlthough it is often assumed that British writing on architectural theory really started in the 18th century, there is in fact a large ...
Continue Reading βIn this book, Caroline van Eck examines how rhetoric and the arts interacted in early modern Europe. She argues that rhetoric, though originally ...
Continue Reading βFew cities have a greater concentration of significant architecture than Oxford, England. Within a city of only 130,000 inhabitants there are important buildings, ...
Continue Reading βArchitecture, at least since the beginning of the twentieth century, has suspended historical references in favor of universalized abstraction. In the decades after ...
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