This is the first comprehensive study of the reception of classical
architecture in different regions of the world. Exploring the
impact of colonialism, trade, slavery, religious missions,
political ideology and intellectual/artistic exchange, the authors
demonstrate how classical principles and ideas were disseminated
and received across the globe. By addressing a number of
contentious or unresolved issues highlighted in some historical
surveys of architecture, the chapters presented in this volume
question long-held assumptions about the notion of a universally
accepted 'classical tradition' and its broadly Euro-centric
perspective. Featuring thirty-two chapters written by international
scholars from China, Europe, Turkey, North America, Mexico,
Australia and New Zealand, the book is divided into four sections:
1) Transmission and re-conceptualisation of classical architecture;
2) Classical influence through colonialism, political ideology and
religious conversion; 3) Historiographical surveys of geographical
regions; and 4) Visual and textual discourses. This fourfold
arrangement of chapters provides a coherent structure to
accommodate different perspectives of classical reception across
the world, and their geographical, ethnographic, ideological,
symbolic, social and cultural contexts. Essays cover a wide
geography and include studies in Italy, France, England, Scotland,
the Nordic countries, Greece, Austria, Portugal, Romania, Germany,
Poland, India, Singapore, China, the USA, Mexico, Brazil, New
Zealand and Australia. Other essays in the volume focus on thematic
issues or topics pertaining to classical architecture, such as
ornament, spolia, humanism, nature, moderation, decorum, heresy and
taste. An essential reference guide, The Routledge Handbook on the
Reception of Classical Architecture makes a major contribution to
the study of architectural history in a new global context.
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