The Emergence of Modern Architecture: A Documentary History from 1000 to 1810 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780415260244)

A cognitive history of the emergence of modern architecture. Cutting across disciplinarian and institutional divisions as we know them today, this book reconstructs developments within the framework of a cognitive history of the past. Modern is here taken to mean the radical re-thinking of architecture from the end of the tenth century in Europe to the end of the eighteenth century. Among the key debates that mark the period are those that oppose tradition to innovation, canon to discovery, geometrical formality to natural picturesqueness, the functional to the hedonistic.

Author: Liane Lefaivre
ISBN-10: 0415260248
ISBN-13: 9780415260244
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 03/04/2004
Pages: 533
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.69lbs
Size: 9.98h x 6.82w x 1.22d