Title & Author:

Architecture and the sites of history : interpretations of buildings and cities / edited by Iain Borden and David Dunster.

Publication:

New York : Whitney Library of Design, 1996.

Description:

xvii, 426 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Notes:
Originally published: Oxford : Butterworth-Architecture, 1995.
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- Sources of Illustrations -- 1. Architecture and the sites of history -- 2. Greece seen from Rome (and Paris) -- 3. Urban classicism and modern ideology -- 4. Versailles -- a political theme park? -- 5. The rib, the arch and the buttress: the structure of gothic architecture -- 6. The power and the glory: the meanings of medieval architecture -- 7. The piazza, the artist and the Cyclops -- 8. The palazzo type -- 9. Demand and supply in renaissance Florence -- 10. City of spectacle: renaissance and baroque Rome -- 11. Three revolutionary architects: Boullee, Ledoux, Lequeu -- 12. Building classicism: speculative development in eighteenth century Paris -- 13. Common sense and the picturesque -- 14. Architecture and philosophy: the case of G.W.F. Hegel -- 15. Architecture and the industrial revolution: Pugin and Ruskin -- 16. The politics of the plan -- 17. Frank Lloyd Wright as educator: the Taliesin Fellowship Program, 1932-59 -- 18. Modernism and the USSR -- 19. Patching the future: the evolution of a post-war housing estate -- 20. Form and technology: the idea of a new architecture -- 21. The birth of a modern city: fin-de-siecle Vienna -- 22. The city without qualities -- 23. Gender and the city -- 24. Theorizing European cities: Aldo Rossi, O.M. Ungers and Rob Krier -- 25. Industrialization and the city: work, speed-up, urbanization -- 26. What is going on? -- 27. Commercial architecture -- 28. Cities, cultural theory, architecture -- Index.

Summary:

An unusual and important book, presenting the complex nature of the history of buildings and cities. The essays cover a diverse range of subjects, some historical and some theoretical, exploring architectural culture and everyday culture from the classical ancient world to today's deconstructivism.

ISBN:

0823002322
9780823002320

Subject:

Architecture.
City planning.
Architektur
Geschichte
Soziologie
Städtebau
Aufsatzsammlung

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.

Added entries:

Borden, Iain.
Dunster, David.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 108819
Call No.: ID NA9040.A7; ID:96-B1378
Status: Available