Charles Robert Cockerell, Architect in Time: Reflections Around Anachronistic Drawings

ISBN-13: 9780367739966 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 236 str.

Anne Bordeleau

Opis

Focusing on how an important nineteenth-century architect addressed the already shifting relation between architecture, time and history, this book offers insights on issues still relevant today-the struggle between imitation and innovation, the definition (or rejection) of aesthetic experience, the grounds of architectural judgment (who decides an

Recenzje

'Bordeleau’s complex and theoretically rich book on Cockerell brings readers into contact with the heart of his belief that "The architect adds the substantial and enduring merit of utility, to the glory of beauty of fine arts and transcend (sic) them all ... He then is the true historian of his times". The Victorian 'By closely assessing Cockerell’s drawings and architecture, and by drawing parallels between his contemporaries’and architects’ practice across periods, the study provides insight not only into Cockerell’s work, but also into wider questions on the relation of architecture to time and history.' The Burlington Magazine

Spis treści

Charles Robert Cockerell, Architect in Time

O autorze

Anne Bordeleau is Associate Professor at the University of Waterloo, Canada.