Title & Author:

Housing the new Romans : architectural reception and classical style in the modern world / edited by Katharine T. von Stackelberg and Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis.

Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]
©2017

Description:

xx, 327 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-307) and index.
Introduction : Architectural reception and the neo-antique / Katherine T. von Stackelberg, Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis -- (Re)presenting Romanitas at Sir John Soane's house and villa / Ann Kuttner -- The Hôtel de Beauharnais in Paris : Egypt, Greece, Rome, and the dynamics of stylistic transformation / Caroline van Eck, Miguel John Versluys -- The history of human habitation : ancient domestic architecture in nineteenth-century Europe / Shelley Hales -- Domestic interiors, national concerns : the Pompeian style in the United States / Marden Fitzpatrick Nichols -- The impossible exedra : engineering contemplation and conviviality in turn-of-the-century America / Melody Barnett Deusner -- Entombing antiquity : a new consideration of Classical and Egyptian appropriation in the funerary architecture of Woodlawn Cemetery, New York City / Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis -- Reconsidering hyperreality : "Roman" houses and their gardens / Katharine T. von Stackelberg -- New Romans, new directions / Katherine T. von Stackelberg, Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

"In the last twenty years, reception studies have significantly enhanced our understanding of the ways in which Classics has shaped modern Western culture, but very little attention has been directed toward the reception of classical architecture. Housing the New Romans: Architectual Reception and Classical Style in the Modern World addresses this gap by investigating ways in which appropriation and allusion facilitated the reception of Classical Greece and Rome through the requisition and redeployment of classicizing tropes to create neo-Antique sites of "dwelling" in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The volume, across nine essays, will cover both European and American iterations of place making, including Sir John Soanes' house in London, the Hôtel de Beauharnais in Paris, and the Getty Villa in California. By focusing on structures and places that are oriented towards private life-houses, hotels, clubs, tombs, and gardens-the volume directs the critical gaze towards diverse and complex sites of curatorial self-fashioning. The goal of the volume is to provide a multiplicity of interpretative frameworks (e.g. object-agency enchantment, hyperreality, memory-infrastructure) that may be applied to the study of architectural reception. This critical approach makes Housing the New Romans the first work of its kind in the emerging field of architectural and landscape reception studies and in the hitherto textually dominated field of classical reception."--Provided by the publisher.

ISBN:

9780190272333 (hbk.)
0190272333 (hbk.)
(ebook)
9780190272357

Subject:

Neoclassicism (Architecture)
Architecture, Domestic.
Architecture, Classical Influence.
Architecture, Ancient Influence.
Néoclassicisme (Architecture)
Architecture antique Influence.
Antike
Architektur
Rezeption
Neuklassizismus
Innenarchitektur
Architecture, Modern 19th century.
Architecture, Modern 20th century.

Added entries:

Stackelberg, Katharine T. von, editor.
Macaulay-Lewis, Elizabeth, editor.
Stackelberg, Katharine T. von. editor.

Architectural reception and classical style in the modern world

Holdings:

Location: Library main 299544
Call No.: BIB 245668
Status: Available