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The Architecture of Luxury (Paperback)
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The Architecture of Luxury (Paperback)
Series: Ashgate Studies in Architecture
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Over the past century, luxury has been increasingly celebrated in
the sense that it is no longer a privilege (or attitude) of the
European elite or America's leisure class. It has become more
ubiquitous and now, practically everyone can experience luxury,
even luxury in architecture. Focusing on various contexts within
Western Europe, Latin America and the United States, this book
traces the myths and application of luxury within architecture,
interiors and designed landscapes. Spanning from antiquity to the
modern era, it sets out six historical categories of luxury -
Sybaritic, Lucullan, architectural excess, rustic, neoEuropean and
modern - and relates these to the built and unbuilt environment,
taking different cultural contexts and historical periods into
consideration. It studies some of the ethical questions raised by
the nature of luxury in architecture and discusses whether
architectural luxury is an unqualified benefit or something which
should only be present within strict limits. The author argues how
the ideas of permissible and impermissible luxury have informed
architecture and how these notions of ethical approval have changed
from one context to another. Providing voluptuous settings for the
nobles and the leisure class, luxury took the form of not only
grand palaces, but also follies, country and suburban houses,
private or public entertainment venues and ornate skyscrapers with
fast lifts. The Architecture of Luxury proposes that in Western
societies the growth of the leisure classes and their desire for
various settings for pleasure resulted in a constantly increasing
level of 'luxury' sought within everyday architecture.
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