TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kruft,Hanno-Walter
TI  - A history of architectural theory: from Vitruvius to the present 
SN  - 1568980108
U1  - 720.1 
PY  - 1994///
CY  - New York
PB  - Princeton Architectural Press
KW  - Architecture
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Historiography
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Preface --; Foreword to the English edition --; Introduction: What is architectural theory? --; 1; Vitruvius and architectural theory in Antiquity --; 2; The Vitruvian tradition and architectural theory in the Middle Ages --; 3; Leone Battista Alberti --; 4; Quattrocento theory after Alberti --; 5; Vitruvian tradition in the Renaissance --; 6; Sixteenth-century codification --; 7; Palladio and the North Italian Humanists --; 8; The counter-Reformation, Baroque and Neo-classicism --; 9; The theory of fortification --; 10; France in the sixteenth century --; 11; The Classical synthesis in seventeenth-century France --; 12; The foundation of the French Academy of Architecture and the subsequent challenge to it --; 13; Relativist architectural aesthetics, the Enlightenment and Revolutionary architecture --; 14; Germany and the Netherlands in the sixteenth century --; 15; The German-speaking regions in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries --; 16; The Italian contribution in the eighteenth century --; 17; Eighteenth-century views of Antiquity --; 18; The role of Spain from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century --; 19; Developments in England from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century --; 20; Concepts of the garden --; 21; Nineteenth-century France and the Ecole des Beaux-Arts --; 22; Germany in the nineteenth century --; 23; England in the nineteenth century --; 24; The United States: from Thomas Jefferson to the Chicago School --; 25; Germany and its neighbours: 1890s-1945 --; 26; France: 1900-1945 --; 27; Italy: Futurism and Rationalism --; 28; The Soviet Union --; 29; The United States in the first half of the twentieth century --; 30; Since 1945 --; Notes (including texts of quotations in the original language) --; Plates --; Bibliography --; Supplement to the Bibliography --; English-language translations of sources --; Index of names
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