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.

Résumé:

As the first comprehensive encyclopedic survey of Western architectural theory from Vitruvius to the present, this book is an essential resource for architects, students, teachers, historians, and theorists. Using only original sources, Kruft has undertaken the monumental task of researching, organizing, and analyzing the significant statements put forth by architectural theorists over the last two thousand years. The result is a text that is authoritative and complete, easy to read without being reductive.
"A remarkably accessible description of the succeeding intellectual visions that have governed architecture through the ages". -- Tom Sullivan, Washington Times.
"I am as astonished to find this book written, so great was the scholarship and labor involved, as I am to find it previously unwritten, so great is the need for it. Its scale and scope is unique". -- Philip Tabor, Architectural Review.

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