This book considers the questions and problems posed by architectural historians since the rise of the discipline in the late nineteenth century. Read alongside introductory surveys of western and global architectural history, it will open up questions of perspective, frame, and intent for students of architecture, art history, and history.
This book considers the questions and problems posed by architectural historians since the rise of the discipline in the late nineteenth century. Read...
Andrew Leach Professor John Macarthur Maarten Delbeke
In his landmark volume Space, Time and Architecture, Sigfried Giedion paired images of two iconic spirals: Tatlin's Monument to the Third International and Borromini's dome for Sant'Ivo alla Sapienza. The values shared between the baroque age and the modern were thus encapsulated on a single page spread. As Giedion put it, writing of Sant'Ivo, Borromini accomplished 'the movement of the whole pattern ...] from the ground to the lantern, without entirely ending even there.' And yet he merely 'groped' towards that which could 'be completely effected' in modern architecture-achieving 'the...
In his landmark volume Space, Time and Architecture, Sigfried Giedion paired images of two iconic spirals: Tatlin's Monument to the Third Internationa...
