Modern architectural theory : a historical survey, 1673-1968 / Harry Francis Mallgrave.
Material type: TextPublisher: Cambridge [UK] ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2005Description: xvii, 503 pages : illustrations ; 29 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0521793068
- 9780521793063
- 720.1 22
- NA2500 .M28 2005
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 417-481) and index.
Prelude -- The enlightenment and neoclassical theory -- British theory in the eighteenth century -- Neoclassicism and historicism -- The rise of German theory -- Competing directions at midcentury -- Historicism in the United States -- The arts and crafts movements -- Excursus on a few of the conceptual foundations of twentieth-century German modernism -- Modernism 1889-1914 -- European modernism 1917-1933 -- American modernism 1917-1934 -- Depression, war, and aftermath 1934-1958 -- Challenges to modernism in Europe 1959-1967 -- Challenges to modernism in America.
"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. He explores the philosophical and conceptual evolution of its ideas, the relation of theory to the practice of building, and most importantly, the words of the architects themselves as they contentiously shaped their particular niche of Western civilization. He also examines the compelling currents of French rationalist and British empirical thought, the radical reformation of theory during the Enlightenment, the intellectual ambition and historicist debates of the nineteenth century, and the distinctive varieties of modern theory in the twentieth century up to the profound social upheaval of the 1960s. Modern Architectural Theory challenges many assumptions about architectural modernism and uncovers many new dimensions of the debates about modernism."--Publisher description.
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