1st Edition
Architecture Re-assembled The Use (and Abuse) of History
By Trevor Garnham
Copyright 2013
240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
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Beginning from the rise of modern history in the eighteenth century, this book examines how changing ideas in the discipline of history itself has affected architecture from the beginning of modernity up to the present day.
It reflects upon history in order to encourage and assist the reader in finding well-founded principles for architectural design.
This is not simply another history... Read more
Introduction 1. Vico and the ‘New Science’ of History 2. After Vitruvius: The Search for a New Fundamental Ground 3. Aesthetics and Questions of Style 4. In what Style should we Build? 5. Nietzsche and the History beyond History 6. Approaches to Modernism 7. Modernism Against History 8. Le Corbusier: For or Against History? 9. Regional Resistance 10. Late Modernism and Critical Histories 11. From Post-Modernism to Meaning in Architecture Epilogue
Biography
Trevor Garnham is an architect and former Principal Lecturer at Kingston University School of Architecture, UK.
