Entrée principale:

Kruft, Hanno-Walter. author.

Titre et auteur:

A history of architectural theory : from Vitruvius to the present / Hanno-Walter Kruft ; translated by Ronald Taylor, Elsie Callander, and Antony Wood.

Publication:

London : Zwemmer ; New York : Princeton Architectural Press, ©1994.
©1994

Description:

706 pages, 95 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 613-684) and index.
Introduction: what is architectural theory? -- Vitruvius and architectural theory in antiquity -- The Vitruvian tradition and architectural theory in the Middle Ages -- Leone Battista Alberti -- Quattrocento theory after Alberti -- Vitruvian tradition in the Renaissance -- Sixteenth-century codification -- Palladio and the North Italian Humanists -- The Counter-Reformation, Baroque & Neo-classicism -- The theory of fortification -- France in the sixteenth century -- The classical synthesis in seventeenth-century France -- The foundation of the French academy of architecture and the subsequent challenge to it -- Relativist architectural aesthetics, the Enlightenment and Revolutionary architecture -- Germany and the Netherlands in the sixteenth century -- The German-speaking regions in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries -- The Italian contribution in the eighteenth century -- Eighteenth-century views of antiquity -- The role of Spain from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century -- Developments in England from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century -- Concepts of the garden -- Nineteenth-century France and the Ecole des Beaux-Arts -- Germany in the nineteenth century -- England in the nineteenth century -- The United States: from Thomas Jefferson to the Chicago School -- Germany and its neighbours: 1890s-1945 -- France: 1900-1945 -- Italy: Futurism and Rationalism -- The Soviet Union -- The United States in the first half of the twentieth century -- Since 1945.
Translation of: Geschichte der Architekturtheorie : von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart. München : Beck, 1985.
Dust jacket.

Ressources:
Publisher description

ISBN:

1568980019 (Princeton)
9781568980010 (Princeton)
1568980108 (Princeton ; pbk.)
9781568980102 (Princeton ; pbk.)
0302006036 (Zwemmer)
9780302006030 (Zwemmer)
0302006222 (Zwemmer ; pbk.)
9780302006221 (Zwemmer ; pbk.)

Sujet:

Architecture Philosophy.
Architecture Historiography.
Architecture and philosophy.
Architecture et philosophie.
Architecture Historiographie.
Architecture Philosophie.
architectural theory.
21.60 architecture: general.
Architectuurtheorieën.
Architecture History

Classification/genre:

History (form)

Vedettes secondaires:

Taylor, Ronald, 1924- translator.
Callander, Elsie, translator.
Wood, Antony, translator.

Architectural theory

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque study room 110775
Cote: ID NA2500.K7513 REF; ID:94-B614
Statut: Disponible