A history of architectural theory : from Vitruvius to the present / Hanno-Walter Kruft ; translated by Ronald Taylor, Elsie Callander, and Antony Wood
- Bib ID:
- 2097634
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Kruft, Hanno-Walter
- Uniform Title:
- Geschichte der Architekturtheorie. English
- Description:
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- London : Zwemmer ; New York : Princeton Architectural Press, c1994
- 706 p., [95] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 1568980108 (Princeton) (paperback)
- 0302006036 (Zwemmer)
- 1568980019 (Princeton)
- 0302006222 (Zwemmer) (paperback)
- Full contents:
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- Introduction: What is architectural theory?
- 1. Vitruvius and architectural theory in Antiquity
- 2. The Vitruvian tradition and architectural theory in the Middle Ages
- 3. Leone Battista Alberti
- 4. Quattrocento theory after Alberti
- 5. Vitruvian tradition in the Renaissance
- 6. Sixteenth-century codification
- 7. Palladio and the North Italian Humanists
- 8. The counter-Reformation, Baroque and Neo-classicism
- 9. The theory of fortification
- 10. France in the sixteenth century
- 11. The Classical synthesis in seventeenth-century France
- 12. The foundation of the French Academy of Architecture and the subsequent challenge to it
- 13. Relativist architectural aesthetics, the Enlightenment and Revolutionary architecture
- 14. Germany and the Netherlands in the sixteenth century
- 15. The German-speaking regions in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
- 16. The Italian contribution in the eighteenth century
- 17. Eighteenth-century views of Antiquity.
- 18. The role of Spain from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century
- 19. Developments in England from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century
- 20. Concepts of the garden
- 21. Nineteenth-century France and the Ecole des Beaux-Arts
- 22. Germany in the nineteenth century
- 23. England in the nineteenth century
- 24. The United States: from Thomas Jefferson to the Chicago School
- 25. Germany and its neighbours: 1890s-1945
- 26. France: 1900-1945
- 27. Italy: Futurism and Rationalism
- 28. The Soviet Union
- 29. The United States in the first half of the twentieth century
- 30. Since 1945.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [613]-684) and index.
- Subject:
- Also Titled:
- Architectural theory
- Copyright:
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