
Architecture of the XIX Century
Electa Architecture (Publisher)
Published on 10. July 2003
Book
Paperback/Softback
404 pages
978-1-904313-09-0 (ISBN)
Description
This volume offers a complete survey of European architecture during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, examining in particular the influence of the cultural trends of the period on the architects' works. The first section of the book deals with the history of eighteenth-century architecture in France and England, countries where Cartesian-school philosophical speculation and Anglo-Saxon philosophical empiricism wielded a determining influence. After analysing the developments of the classical tradition and its propagation throughout Europe, the book studies in depth the history of architectural movements, comprising neo-classicism, neo-Renaissance and neo-Gothic architecture. The outstanding, forerunning personalities of this brilliant artistic period who, in the course of the nineteenth century, offered fecund theoretic and stylistic contributions, include Gottfried Semper, John Ruskin and Eugene Viollet-le Duc.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Illustrations
664 schw.-w. Abb.
Dimensions
Height: 24 cm
Width: 22 cm
Weight
1000 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-904313-09-0 (9781904313090)
Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Robin Middleton is professor of Art History at the Columbia University, New York. The focus of his studies is fench and English Architecture of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. David Watkin is reader in the History of Architecture at the University of Cambridge, his numerous published works cover western architecture from the ancient world to the present day.
Content
Chapters 1-8; Bibliography; Index