Court & Garden explores the social, psychological, and especially the formal transformations that led architects to trade the city of public space for the city of private icons.
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This is a specialized account of architecture in the modern period (since 1750) by a practicing architect and professor of architecture at Harvard. Dennis's text is aimed at the architectural community and deeply indebted to the pioneering work of Colin Rowe. It makes a valuable contribution to the history of French architecture, delivering primarily a thoughtful review of the development of the French hotel (roughly translatable as townhouse), the best history of this house type in English, which then serves as entree to discussion of modern urbanism derived from the theories of Le Corbusier. Profusely illustrated and soundly researched, but of interest primarily to architects and architectural historians. Peter Kaufman, Suffolk Community Coll. Lib., Selden, N.Y.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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"Michael Dennis writes clearly, and his well informed text is copiously illustrated with period drawings beautifully reproduced .... Parallel to the study of houses is a history of Parisian squares, showing how they too became less dense and more open, being gradually transformed from outdoor rooms to nodes in a traffic system. All this history is illuminating, and many architects will find the book worth reading for it alone."
—Peter Blundell Jones, Architects Journal --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
—Peter Blundell Jones, Architects Journal --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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This review is from: Court and Garden: From the French Hotel to the City of Modern Architecture (Graham Foundation Architecture Series) (Hardcover)
I studied under Michael Dennis in graduate school and was strongly influenced by his approach to history. I think we'd benefit from rereading this history of a building type. It provides us with a format for analyzing the evolution of architectural and urban types over time, with proper acknowledgment of parallel developments in politics and economy. I urge students of architecture history and urbanism to look closely at this book and study the implications of Professor Dennis' argument.
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