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

A cognitive history of the emergence of modern architecture. Cutting across disciplinarian and institutional divisions as we know them today, this book reconstructs developments within the framework of a cognitive history of the past. Modern is here taken to mean the radical re-thinking of architecture from the end of the tenth century in Europe to the end of the eighteenth century. Among the key debates that mark the period are those that oppose tradition to innovation, canon to discovery, geometrical formality to natural picturesqueness, the functional to the hedonistic.

Author: Liane Lefaivre
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 03/04/2004
Pages: 533
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 2.33lbs
Size: 9.94h x 6.62w x 1.02d
ISBN: 9780415260251