Romanticism and American architecture.

Main entry:

Early, James, 1923-2005.

Title & Author:

Romanticism and American architecture.

Publication:

New York, A.S. Barnes [1965]

Description:

171 pages illustrations, plans 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Romantic revivals: history and associationism -- Romantic naturalism: the picturesque -- Nature, the gothic, and functionalism -- Gothic as a style for Protestantism -- Nationalism and a new architecture.

Summary:

American architecture of the Romantic Period- the earlier nineteenth century- produced many strange and many charming buildings and a notably wide variety of ideas about architecture. Men as diverse as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Thomas Jefferson, the sculptor Horatio Greenough and the landscape gardener Andrew Jackson Downing concerned themselves with the art of building. During this period, architecture underwent a revolution as great as that which took place during the Renaissance, and the currents of tast moved rapidly and, at times, wildly. Traditional methods of building and of seeing were discarded and new ones arose which were to lead directly toward the new architecture of the twentieth century. The opening portion of this book is concerned with the classical revivals and their roots in the politics, psychology, and historical consciousness of the times. Later the focus shifts to the effects of the Romantic reverence for nature upon architectural styles, forms, and materials. Another chapter concentrates on the Gothic revival and the theories of functionalism engendered by it. The concluding section of the work examines the impact of nationalism and the role of iron and glass, the revolutionary building materials at mid-century, upon conventional architectural conceptions -- Provided by publisher.

Subject:

Architecture United States.
Romanticism in art.
Architecture, American.
Architecture américaine.
Romantisme dans l'art.
Architecture États-Unis.
Architecture
United States

Holdings:

Location: Library main 136376
Call No.: W2964; ID:86-B8861
Status: Available

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