Modern Architectural Theory - A Historical Survey, 1673-1968 (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	July 2009
First published:	August 2009
Authors:	Harry Francis Mallgrave
Dimensions:	280 x 216 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	522
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-13048-6
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Architecture > Theory of architecture Promotions
LSN:	0-521-13048-4
Barcode:	9780521130486

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