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This is the first full-length study on the connections between
English architecture and intellectual change between 1660 and 1730.
As new ideas developed in post-Restoration England across the
realms of politics, culture, academia and morality, so too did
architectural expression of these ideas. Power and Virtue
articulately engages English architecture with notions of power and
virtue in terms of empirical knowledge on the one hand and humanism
and virtuosi on the other. Aimed at an academic readership in history and theory of architecture and the history of English architecture, this unique study will also interest those studying the ideas of material culture.
This is the first full-length study on the connections between
English architecture and intellectual change between 1660 and 1730.
As new ideas developed in post-Restoration England across the
realms of politics, culture, academia and morality, so too did
architectural expression of these ideas. Power and Virtue
articulately engages English architecture with notions of power and
virtue in terms of empirical knowledge on the one hand and humanism
and virtuosi on the other. Aimed at an academic readership in history and theory of architecture and the history of English architecture, this unique study will also interest those studying the ideas of material culture.
Neither derivatives of Western cities nor isolated from them, Chinese cities in the past four decades are perhaps best captured in their characteristic complexity through a concept in biological evolution: drift. Unlike mutation, adaptation, and migration, drift of phenotypes takes place when chance events terminate some features and allow other features to flourish. The Chinese culture, structurally divergent from the common Indo-European civilizational roots of Western cultures, can be seen to function as a set of "chance events" in the normative processes of urban change. The consequences of these "bottlenecks" of urban evolution are both fascinating and instructive: Chinese cities, when studied with this framework, begin to acquire an entirely different order of significance, injecting urban theory and practice with fresh vigor and insights. Through 13 case studies, more than 60 original maps and drawings, and extensive photographic documentation, the book reveals how three "drift triggers" - ten thousand things, figuration, and group action - have altered typological development in Chinese cities in recent decades.
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