Title & Author:

Architecture and the sites of history : interpretations of buildings and cities / edited by Iain Borden and David Dunster.

Publication:

Boston : Butterworth Architecture, 1995.

Description:

xvii, 425 pages ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Architecture and the sites of history / Iain Borden and David Dunster -- 2. Greece seen from Rome (and Paris) / Martin Goalen -- 3. Urban classicism and modern ideology / Graham Ive -- 4. Versailles -- a political theme park? / Adrian Forty -- 5. The rib, the arch and the buttress: the structure of gothic architecture / Francis Woodman -- 6. The power and the glory: the meanings of medieval architecture / Alexandrina Buchanan -- 7. The piazza, the artist and the Cyclops / Iain Borden -- 8. The palazzo type / David Dunster -- 9. Demand and supply in renaissance Florence / Graham Ive -- 10. City of spectacle: renaissance and baroque Rome / Jeremy Melvin -- 11. Three revolutionary architects: Boullee, Ledoux, Lequeu / Richard Patterson -- 12. Building classicism: speculative development in eighteenth century Paris / Maxine Copeland -- 13. Common sense and the picturesque / Adrian Forty -- 14. Architecture and philosophy: the case of G. W. F. Hegel / Jeremy Melvin.
15. Architecture and the industrial revolution: Pugin and Ruskin / Mark Swenarton -- 16. The politics of the plan / Iain Borden -- 17. Frank Lloyd Wright as educator: the Taliesin Fellowship Program, 1932-59 / Richard Candida Smith -- 18. Modernism and the USSR / Jonathan Charley -- 19. Patching the future: the evolution of a post-war housing estate / Joe Kerr -- 20. Form and technology: the idea of a new architecture / Andrew Higgott -- 21. The birth of a modern city: fin-de-siecle Vienna / David Dunster -- 22. The city without qualities / Adrian Forty -- 23. Gender and the city / Iain Borden -- 24. Theorizing European cities: Aldo Rossi, O. M. Ungers and Rob Krier / David Dunster -- 25. Industrialization and the city: work, speed-up, urbanization / Jonathan Charley -- 26. What is going on? / Richard Patterson -- 27. Commercial architecture / Graham Ive -- 28. Cities, cultural theory, architecture / Iain Borden.

Summary:

This introductory textbook for students explains how the present state of the urban and rural environment came into being. It derives from a history course for planning, building and architecture students given at University College London's Bartlett School of Architecture and Planning.

ISBN:

0750607564 (pbk.)
9780750607568 (pbk.)

Subject:

Architecture.
City planning.
Gebouwen.
Stedenbouw.
Architecture History

Added entries:

Borden, Iain.
Dunster, David.

Holdings:

Location: Library main price 267838
Call No.: BIB 199726
Status: Available