Modern Architectural Theory: A Historical Survey, 1673-1968

ISBN-13: 9780521130486 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 522 str.

Harry Mallgrave

Opis

Harry Mallgrave's comprehensive survey of architectural theory, primarily in Europe and the United States, contextualizes architectural discourse within its social and political atmosphere over three centuries of development. 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 over time.

Recenzje

'Mallgrave's book will achieve preeminence … for assembling an immense amount of architectural material and summarizing it in a highly readable, critical, and at times compelling fashion.' Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians

Spis treści

1. Prelude; 2. The enlightenment and neoclassical theory; 3. British theory in the eighteenth century; 4. Neoclassicism and historicism; 5. The rise of German theory; 6. Competing directions at midcentury; 7. Historicism in the United States; 8. The arts and crafts movement; 9. Excursus on a few of the conceptual foundations of twentieth-century German modernism; 10. Modernism 1889–1914; 11. European modernism 1917–1933; 12. American modernism 1917–1934; 13. Depression, war, and aftermath 1934–1958; 14. Challenges to modernism in Europe 1959–1967; 15. Challenges to modernism in America; Epilogue.