1st Edition
The Art of Building International Ideas, Dutch Debate 1840-1900
By Auke Van Der Woud
Copyright 2017
252 Pages
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Routledge
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This title was first published in 2002: In the second half of the 18th century, philosophy provided the fundamental characteristics of architechture. The architects of the 19th century then introduced the empirical comparative study of buildings. This phenomenon has usually been regarded exclusively in terms of historicism, but this is to underestimate the fact that they were architects. The... Read more
Part 1 The inheritance of Enlightenment - character, style, and truth: key concepts - France, England, Germany, and the Netherlands - the years before 1840; universal rules of art or individual experience, first experiments - the 1840s; post-classicism and classicism in disguise - the 1850s. Part 2 The business of architecture - characters, styles, and truths, in a modern world: the rise of the public - the 1860s; the fall of theory - 1870s; rules of art on the market-place - the 1880s (1); fashionable designs, theoretical debates - the 1880s (2); on the eve of revolution - 1880s (3). Part 3 Words and images - the business of truth, character, and style: history wiped out by feelings - the 1890s (1); key concepts for a new age - sublime beauty, personal taste and theories, and the importance of quite ordinary things - the 1890s (2). Epilogue - a hundred years later.
Biography
Auke Van Der Woud
