Main entry:

Mallgrave, Harry Francis.

Title & Author:

Modern architectural theory : a historical survey, 1673-1968 / Harry Francis Mallgrave.

Publication:

Cambridge [UK] ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2005.

Description:

xvii, 503 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm

Restrictions:

Online version licensed for access by U. of T. users.

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 417-481) and index.
Prelude : François Blondel and the French Academy tradition ; Claude Perrault and the Louvre ; The quarrel of the ancients and the moderns ; The first project for the Church of Ste.-Geneviève -- The enlightenment and neoclassical theory : The enlightenment in France ; Soufflot and the Church of Ste.-Geneviève ; Marc-Antoine Laugier ; The "rediscovery" of Greece ; The historiography of Winckelmann ; The Graeco-Roman debate ; Neoclassicism and character -- British theory in the eighteenth century The legacy of Jones and Wren ; The Palladian movement ; The origins of the picturesque and the sublime ; The Scottish and Irish enlightenment ; Picturesque theory ; John Sloane -- Neoclassicism and historicism : Durand and Quatremère de Quincy ; The polychrome debate ; Socialism, romanticism, and the "petite révolution" ; Classicism and the gothic revival in Britain -- The rise of German theory : The German enlightenment ; Friedrich Gilly and Karl Friedrich Schinkel ; Weinbrenner, Moller, Klenze, and Gärtner ; In what style should we build? ; Karl Bötticher and the style debate -- Competing directions at midcentury : The British style debate 1840-1860 ; Viollet-le Duc and the debate in France ; Gottfried Semper and the idea of style -- Historicism in the United States : The tradition of American classicism ; Stylistic pluralism around midcentury ; Emerson and Greenough ; Davis and Downing ; Richardson and Sullivan -- The arts and crafts movements : The British Arts and Craft movement ; Domestic reforms on the continent of Europe ; Reform movements in United States ; Camillo Sitte and Ebenezer Howard -- Excursus on a few of the conceptual foundations of twentieth-century German modernism -- Modernism 1889-1914 : Otto Wagner ; Realism and Sachlichkeit ; Endell and van de Velde ; Olbrich, Hoffmann, and Loos ; Berlage and Wright ; Garnier, Perret, Jeanneret, and Sant'Elia ; Muthesius and Behrens -- European modernism 1917-1933 : Speglerism versus Taylorism ; Soviet rationalism and constructivism ; De Stijl and Dutch modernism ; Expressionism and the Bauhaus ; Le Corbusier and Giedion ; The breadth of the early modern movement ; Weissenhof and CIAM -- American modernism 1917-1934 : The American skyscraper ; Wright: the lost years ; Schindler and Neutra ; Mumford and Fuller ; The International Style exhibition -- Depression, war, and aftermath 1934-1958 : Totalitarianism in Germany and Italy ; Prewar theory elsewhere in Europe ; American practice and academic reforms, 1934-1941 ; The 1940s and 1950s in the United States ; Postwar modernism in South America, Asia, and Europe -- Challenges to modernism in Europe 1959-1967 : CIAM and Team 10 ; The Italian "retreat" from the modern movement ; Banham, Archigram, Metabolism, and other utopianisms ; Phenomenology, structuralism, and semiotics ; Ungers, Sterling, Scarpa, and Rossi -- Challenges to modernism in America : Mumford, Jacobs, and the failure of the American city ; From a pattern language to the I-ching ; Louis I. Kahn ; Colin Rowe, Peter Eisenman, and CASE ; Complexity and contradiction in architecture -- Epilogue : 1968.

Summary:

"Modern Architectural Theory is the first book to provide a comprehensive survey of architectural theory, primarily in Europe and the United States, during three centuries of development. In this synthetic overview, Harry Mallgrave examines architectural discourse within its social and political context. He explores the philosophical and conceptual evolution of its ideas, discusses the relation of theory to the practice of building, and, most importantly, considers the words of the architects themselves as they contentiously shaped Western architecture.
He also examines the compelling currents of French rationalist and British empiricist thought, radical reformation of the theory during the Enlightenment, the intellectual ambitions and historicist debates of the nineteenth century, and the distinctive varieties of modern theory in the twentieth century up to the profound social upheaval of the 1960s. Modern Architectural Theory challenges many assumptions about architectural modernism and uncovers many new dimensions of the debates about modernism."--Jacket.

Resources:
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ISBN:

9780521793063 (hardback)
0521793068 (hardback)

Subject:

Architecture Philosophy History.
Architecture, Modern.
Architecture Philosophie Histoire.
Architecture 17e siècle.
Architecture 18e siècle.
Architecture 19e siècle.
Architecture 20e siècle.
Architecture Philosophy
Architectuurtheorieën.

Form/genre:

Electronic books.
History

Holdings:

Location: Library main 238818
Call No.: NA2500.M28 2005
Status: Available