Modern architectural theory : a historical survey, 1673-1968 /

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Author / Creator:Mallgrave, Harry Francis.
Imprint:Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
©2005
Description:1 online resource (xvii, 503 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
Subject:Architecture -- Philosophy -- History.
Architecture, Modern.
Architecture -- Philosophie -- Histoire.
Architecture -- 17e siècle.
Architecture -- 18e siècle.
Architecture -- 19e siècle.
Architecture -- 20e siècle.
ARCHITECTURE -- Urban & Land Use Planning.
Architecture, Modern.
Architecture -- Philosophy -- History.
Architecture, Modern.
Architecture -- Philosophy.
Architectuurtheorieën.
Electronic books.
History.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11811814
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 417-481) and index.
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Summary:Modern Architectural Theory is the first book to provide a comprehensive survey of architectural theorem, primarily in Europe and the United States, during three centuries of development. In this synthetic overview, Harry Mallgrave contextualizes architectural discourse within its social and political atmosphere.
Other form:Print version: Mallgrave, Harry Francis. Modern architectural theory. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005 0521793068
Standard no.:9780521793063
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This is what all have been waiting for--a comprehensive, dispassionate, and scholarly account of architectural theory since the breakdown of Renaissance-baroque humanist architectural theory in the 18th century. Mallgrave is an established author and scholar who has written authoritatively on that most intractable of subjects, 19th-century German architectural theory. In fact, in many ways this book represents a lebenswerk for Mallgrave, who practices architecture in Florida. He prepared for it by serving for 20 years as editor of the "Texts and Documents Series" for the Getty Research Institute, in the areas of architecture and aesthetics. In short, this book will long stand as a basic library resource and as a comprehensive student resource for architectural theory courses throughout the English-speaking world. Gracefully written, thoroughly researched, and sensibly organized by country, it also includes Russia and Italy. Fortunately, the book starts with Rene Descartes in the late 17th century, providing a good ramp up to 18th-century architectural theory. Unfortunately, the book's coverage ends at about 1970, leaving the tremendous challenge and complexity of postmodern architectural theory to some other survey. ^BSumming Up: Essential. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and researchers. P. Kaufman Boston Architectural Center

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