The Emergence of Modern Architecture: A Documentary History from 1000 to 1810

ISBN-13: 9780415260251 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 533 str.

Liane Lefaivre; Alexander Tzonis

Opis

This documentary history records a cognitive history of the emergence of modern architecture. Cutting across our contemporary disciplinarian and institutional divisions, it reconstructs developments within the framework of a cognitive history of the past.

Spis treści

Include: The Book of Military and Chivalric Feats, Christine de Pisan (c. 1410). Treatises on Civil and Military Architecture, Francesco di Giorgio Martini (1474-1482). Lessons of Architecture, François Blondel (1675). A Report on Gothic Architecture, Jacques Germain Soufflot (1741). My Say on Architecture, Denis Diderot (1766). On German Architecture, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1772). Reveries of a Solitary Walker, Jean Jacques Rousseau (1776-1778). Panopticon, or the Inspection-House, Jeremy Bentham (1787). Architecture Considered under the Relation of Art, Morals and Legislation, Claude Nicolas Ledoux (1804). A Presis of the Lessons in Architecture given at the Polytechnic School, Jean Nicolas Louis Durand (1802-1805)

O autorze

Lefaivre, Liane; Tzonis, Alexander