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Modernity - Enlightenment and Revolution - ideal and unforeseen consequence (Hardcover)
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Modernity - Enlightenment and Revolution - ideal and unforeseen consequence (Hardcover)
Series: Architecture in Context
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The seventh book in the Architecture in Context series, this is a
comprehensive survey of European architecture from the pre-dawn of
the Enlightenment in early Georgian England to the triumph of
Brutalism in the seventh decade of the twentieth century. The three
main sections of the book are preceded by a concise introduction
isolating the key philosophical or political theories which
dominated the period: in particular Enlightenment and
industrialization. The first section covers Anglo-Palladianism,
French academic rationalism, their Neoclassical developments and
the aspiration to the Sublime. This first part of the book develops
the major strand of eclecticism before progressing to Historicism
in the second, the choice of style seen to be relevant to a given
commission, and the impact of industrial building techniques. The
third and final part begins with Design Reform in reaction to
industrialism and then proceeds to Design Reform in response to the
reactionaries, but they too continue to make their mark as the
chronicle progresses. The epilogue covers developments from the
advent of the Postmodernists and their High-Tech adversaries to the
diversity of formal and technological games played out towards the
end of the century. The many great architects and designers whose
work both defines and illustrates the themes of the book include
visionaries like Soane, Boullee and Schinkel, entrepreneurial
innovators such as the Adams brothers and Repton, engineers of the
age of iron including Eiffel, Paxton and Belanger, and 20th-century
giants - Frank Lloyd Wright, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Le
Corbusier among numerous others.
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