Illustrated throughout, this volume brings together all of the most important and influential essays about architecture written since the Renaissance, neatly organized chronologically by country.
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An Excellent Illustrated Overview,
This review is from: Architectural Theory: From the Renaissance to the Present 89 Essays on 117 Treatises (Midi Series) (Paperback)
Although you can buy full editions of the more prominent works discussed in this volume and enjoy them in full (e. g. On the Art of Building, Towards a New Architecture), the real value of this work is in its illustrations. The bulk of the book consists of illustrations lifted from European architecture books from between 1500 and 1800, and these illustrations from now-obscure books are quite picturesque and excite the imagination. The selections of twentieth-century theory are also well done, providing us with similarly rich views of Classical Modernism, Metabolism, and other trends Aldo Rossi. While the text provides one with just a summary, the illustrations make this book an excellent value.
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primordial hut, bien bastir, architettura civile, tectural theory, court façade, crystal building, quattro libri, architectural treatise, sectional elevation, architectural ideal, most important architects, ideal town Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Classical Antiquity, New York, Fra Giocondo, Claude Perrault, François Blondel, Frank Lloyd Wright, Fischer von Erlach, Fray Lorenzo, Robert Venturi, Engraving Vol, Giuseppe Galli Bibiena, Sebastiano Serlio, Walter Gropius, Guarino Guarini, Peter's Basilica, Rem Koolhaas, Virgil Solis, Andrea Palladio, Giorgio Martini, Las Vegas, Neues Bauen, United States, Bruno Taut, Cesare Cesariano, Daniele Barbaro New!
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- The International Style by Henry Russell Hitchcock on 6 pages
- Walter Gropius (Dover Books on Architecture) by Siegfried Giedion on 4 pages
- Pop Art (Art and Design Profiles) by England) Pop Art Symposium (1991 London on page 770, page 790, and page 802
- Book of Architecture by Sebastiano Serlio on page 421, page 422, and page 424
- Robert Venturi: Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture by Robert Venturi on page 714, page 782, and page 790
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- Interpretation in Architecture: Design as Way of Thinking by Richard Coyne in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Architectural Treatise in the Italian Renaissance: Architectural Invention, Ornament and Literary Culture by Alina A. Payne in Back Matter
- The Rise of the Image: Essays on the History of the Illustrated Art Book (Reinterpreting Classicism) by Rodney Palmer on page 97
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