1st Edition
The Emergence of Modern Architecture A Documentary History, from 1000 to 1810
552 Pages
by
Routledge
552 Pages
by
Routledge
552 Pages
by
Routledge
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A cognitive history of the emergence of modern architecture. Cutting across disciplinarian and institutional divisions as we know them today, this book reconstructs developments within the framework of a cognitive history of the past. Modern is here taken to mean the radical re-thinking of architecture from the end of the tenth century in Europe to the end of the eighteenth century.... Read more
Include: The Book of Military and Chivalric Feats, Christine de Pisan (c. 1410). Treatises on Civil and Military Architecture, Francesco di Giorgio Martini (1474-1482). Lessons of Architecture, François Blondel (1675). A Report on Gothic Architecture, Jacques Germain Soufflot (1741). My Say on Architecture, Denis Diderot (1766). On German Architecture, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1772). Reveries of a Solitary Walker, Jean Jacques Rousseau (1776-1778). Panopticon, or the Inspection-House, Jeremy Bentham (1787). Architecture Considered under the Relation of Art, Morals and Legislation, Claude Nicolas Ledoux (1804). A Presis of the Lessons in Architecture given at the Polytechnic School, Jean Nicolas Louis Durand (1802-1805)
Biography
Lefaivre, Liane; Tzonis, Alexander
