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Architects and Intellectual Culture in Post-Restoration England (Hardcover)
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Architects and Intellectual Culture in Post-Restoration England (Hardcover)
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Architects, Builders, and Intellectual Culture in Restoration
England charts the moment when well-educated, well-resourced,
English intellectuals first became interested in classical
architecture in substantial numbers. This occurred after the
Restoration of the Monarchy in 1660 and involved people such as
John Evelyn, Robert Hooke, Sir Christopher Wren, and Roger North.
Matthew Walker explores how these figures treated architecture as a
subject of intellectual enquiry, either as writers, as designers of
buildings, or as both. In four substantial chapters it looks at how
the architect was defined as a major intellectual figure, how
architects acquired material that allowed them to define themselves
as intellectually competent architects, how intellectual writers in
the period handled knowledge of ancient architecture in their
writing, and how the design process in architecture was conceived
of in theoretical writing at the time. In all, Walker shows that
the key to understanding English architectural culture at the time
is to understand how architecture was handled as knowledge, and how
architects were conceived of as collectors and producers of such
knowledge. He also makes the claim that architecture was treated as
an extremely serious and important area of intellectual enquiry,
the result of which was that by the turn of the eighteenth century,
architects and architectural writers could count themselves amongst
England's intellectual and cultural elite.
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