The classical vernacular : architectural principles in an age of nihilism / Roger Scruton.

Main entry:

Scruton, Roger.

Title & Author:

The classical vernacular : architectural principles in an age of nihilism / Roger Scruton.

Publication:

Manchester : Carcarnet, 1994.

Description:

xviii, 158 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes index.
Reflections on a candlestick -- Architecture of the horizontal -- Vernacular architecture -- Public space and the classical vernacular -- Aesthetic education and design -- Building at a crossroads -- Architectural principles in an age of Nihilism -- Alberti and the art of the appropriate -- Curtis Green at Chiswick -- Architecture and the Polis -- Adrian Stokes -- Buckminster Fuller -- David Watkin's morality and architecture -- Manfredo Tafuri's Marxism -- Art history and aesthetic judgement.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

In this book, Roger Scruton looks at the work of 19th- and 20th-century architects and appraises their achievement and the values that inform it in relation to those of us who live in, or alongside, their structures.

ISBN:

1857540549
9781857540543

Subject:

Architecture Philosophy.
Architectural criticism
Architecture, Modern 19th century
Architecture, Modern 20th century
Philosophy

Holdings:

Location: Library main 92650
Call No.: ID NA208.S4; ID:95-B80
Status: Available

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