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This review is from: Heavenly Mansions: and Other Essays on Architecture (Norton Books for Architects & Designers) (Paperback)
Certain architectural writers are a pleasure to read. John Summerson is one of them, approaching "la creme de la creme." Few can match him in terms of erudition, clarity of expressed thought, and sheer elegance of language. I think all students - after their first basic history courses - ought to read the following chapters:"Heavenly Mansions: an Interpretation of Gothic" "Viollet-le-Duc and the Rational Point of View" "Architecture, Painting, and Le Corbusier" "The Mischevious Analogy" The other chapters are also all good, but the above will probably be the most interesting to those concerned with the development of modern architectural theory, giving an interested mind as much to think about as Complexity and Contradiction or Learning from Las Vegas (perhaps more than both combined). |
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Heavenly Mansions: and Other Essays on Architecture (Norton Books for Architects & Designers) by John Summerson (Paperback - October 17, 1998)
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