The Emergence of Modern Architecture: A Documentary History, from 1000 to 1810Liane Lefaivre, Alexander Tzonis Routledge, 2004 M07 31 - 552 pages A cognitive history of the emergence of modern architecture. Cutting across disciplinarian and institutional divisions as we know them today, this book reconstructs developments within the framework of a cognitive history of the past. Modern is here taken to mean the radical re-thinking of architecture from the end of the tenth century in Europe to the end of the eighteenth century. Among the key debates that mark the period are those that oppose tradition to innovation, canon to discovery, geometrical formality to natural picturesqueness, the functional to the hedonistic. |
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... called 'antiqua'. During this dark stretch of time, the institutional and cultural constructs set up by the Hellenistic kingdoms, the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire continued - in the words of Edward Gibbon - to 'decline and fall ...
... called 'antiqua'. During this dark stretch of time, the institutional and cultural constructs set up by the Hellenistic kingdoms, the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire continued - in the words of Edward Gibbon - to 'decline and fall ...
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... called 'improvements'? What were the changes in modern thinking? Was it the introduction of the stirrup, the horseshoe, the plough and the water-mill? To a great extent the very bad conditions of the dark Middle Ages in Western Europe ...
... called 'improvements'? What were the changes in modern thinking? Was it the introduction of the stirrup, the horseshoe, the plough and the water-mill? To a great extent the very bad conditions of the dark Middle Ages in Western Europe ...
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... called epigrammati- cally 'the best book available on the subject'. It may be difficult for the reader of this book today to understand how the dispute about such a major problem, the rules of architecture, focused on such as limited ...
... called epigrammati- cally 'the best book available on the subject'. It may be difficult for the reader of this book today to understand how the dispute about such a major problem, the rules of architecture, focused on such as limited ...
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... called, probably first by Algarotti, a follower of London, who was the founder of the movement in Italy, appeared at around the end of the seventeenth century. Rigorism in the broadest sense censured everything arbitrary, applied ...
... called, probably first by Algarotti, a follower of London, who was the founder of the movement in Italy, appeared at around the end of the seventeenth century. Rigorism in the broadest sense censured everything arbitrary, applied ...
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... called 'urban renewal' today. Indicative of the crisis and the newness of the problem was Sir James Steuart's commentary on the condition of London (1771). Parallel with these pragmatic works are visionary texts such as Morelly's The ...
... called 'urban renewal' today. Indicative of the crisis and the newness of the problem was Sir James Steuart's commentary on the condition of London (1771). Parallel with these pragmatic works are visionary texts such as Morelly's The ...
Contents
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Francesco Giorgi or Zorzi Memorandum for S Francesco della | |
Philibert de IOrme New Inventions for Building Economically 131 | |
CharlesAugustin dAviler Coursdarchitecture 1691 255 | |
Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach Entwurfeinerhistorischen Architecktur 1721 285 | |
Robert Castell The Villas of the Ancients 293 | |
John Searle Plan of Popes garden 1745 303 | |
Epistle to Lord Burlington 300 | |
CharlesEtienne Briseux Lart de bdtirles maisons decampagne 17431761 315 | |
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Marc Antoine Laugier Eisai sitr architecture 1753 338 | |
Giacomo Barozzio da Vignola Cinque Ordini 1563 159 | |
Antonio Rusconi DellArchitettura 1590 160 | |
i59i El Greco Domenico Theotocopoulos Marginalia to Daniele | |
Jaques Perret Des Fortifications et artifices architecture et perspective 1601 166167 | |
Federigo Zuccaro The Idea of Painters Sculptors and Architects 168 | |
Vincenzo Scamozzi DeII Idea dell architettura universale 1615 171 | |
Ben Jonson Neptunes Triumph 175 | |
Galileo Galilei Discorsi intomo a due nuove scienze 1638 187 | |
published J D Cassini 198 | |
Sir Christopher Wren Tracts on Architecture 203 | |
Juan Caramuel de Lobkowitz Architectura Civil recta y obliqua 1678 223225 | |
written Guarino Guarini Civil Architecture 226 | |
Guarino Guarini Architectura Civil 1678 230231 | |
Antoine Desgodetz Les Edifices antiques de Rome 1682 239 | |
Antoine Desgodetz The Antique Buildings of Rome 236 | |
Michel de Fremin A Critical Report on Architecture Containing the True | |
Anthony Earl of Shaftesbury Characteristics of Men Manners Opinions | |
Sir William Chambers Designs for Chinese Buildings 1757 349 | |
Julien David Le Roy Ruines des plus beaux monuments de la Grece 1758 361 | |
Giovanni Battista Piranesi Carceri dinvenzione 1760 365 | |
i78i Francesco Milizia Principles of Civil Architecture 428 | |
composed AntoineChrysostome Quatremere de Quincy On Egyptian | |
Nicolas Caritat Marquis de Condorcet Report on Hospitals 442 | |
Jacques Rene Tenon Reports on the Hospitals of Paris 456 | |
Richard Elsam Essay on Rural Architecture 476 | |
ClaudeNicolas Ledoux Concerning Architecture Seen From the Point | |
Illustration | |
CharlesFrancois Viel On the Impotence of Mathematics to Insure | |
Bibliography and references 502 | |
Poliphili 77 | |
Francis Bacon On Building The Essays 180 | |
Index 526 | |
Sir Christopher Wren Surveyors Report on the Condition ofSt Pauls | |
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