Modern Architectural Theory is the first book to provide a
comprehensive survey of architectural theory, primarily in Europe
and the United States, during three centuries of development. In
this synthetic overview, Harry Mallgrave examines architectural
discourse within its social and political context. He explores the
philosophical and conceptual evolution of its ideas, discusses the
relation of theory to the practice of building, and, most
importantly, considers the words of the architects themselves, as
they contentiously shaped Western architecture. He also examines
the compelling currents of French rationalist and British
empiricist thought, radical reformation of the theory during the
Enlightenment, the intellectual ambitions and historicist debates
of the nineteenth century, and the distinctive varieties of modern
theory in the twentieth century up to the profound social upheaval
of the 1960s. Modern Architectural Theory challenges many
assumptions about architectural modernism and uncovers many new
dimensions of the debates about modernism.
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