Main entry:

Collins, Peter, 1920-1981.

Title & Author:

Changing ideals in modern architecture, 1750-1950 / Peter Collins.

Edition:

2nd ed.

Publication:

Description:

308 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (page 301) and indexes.
Foreword to the Second Edition / Kenneth Frampton -- Notes on the Publication of Changing Ideals in Modern Architecture / Annmarie Adams -- Preface / John Bland -- Romanticism -- 1. Revolutionary Architecture -- 2. The Influence of Historiography -- 3. The Influence of the Picturesque -- Revivalism -- 4. The Awareness of Styles -- 5. Primitivism and Progress -- 6. The Roman Revival -- 7. The Greek Revival -- 8. The Renaissance Revival -- 9. Gothic Nationalism -- 10. Gothic Ecclesiology and Social Reform -- 11. Polychromy -- 12. Eclecticism -- 13. The Demand for a New Architecture -- Functionalism -- 14. The Biological Analogy -- 15. The Mechanical Analogy -- 16. The Gastronomic Analogy -- 17. The Linguistic Analogy -- Rationalism -- 18. The Influence of Civil and Military Engineers -- 19. Rationalism -- 20. New Planning Problems -- The Influence of the Allied Arts -- 21. The Influence of Literature and Criticism -- 22. The Influence of Industrial Design -- 23. The Influence of Painting and Sculpture -- 24. New Concepts of Space.
English.

Summary:

Changing Ideals in Modern Architecture revolutionized the understanding of modernism in architecture, pushing back the sense of its origin from the early twentieth century to the 1750s and thus placing architectural thought within the a broader context of Western intellectual history. This new edition of Peter Collins's ground-breaking study includes all seventy-two illustrations of the original hard cover edition, which has been out of print since 1967, and restores the large format.
Collins explains what Revivalism, Rationalism, Eclecticism, and Functionalism meant to those who practised them, examining the impact that social forces and the other arts and sciences had on architectural styles while recognizing the tectonic continuities that underlie the seeming ruptures between pre-modern, modern, and post-modern approaches to design. His work is infused with a deep sympathy for the classical spirit of the eighteenth century and he argued rigorously and passionately that Enlightenment ideas could be of real value to the architects of his generation, particularly since technology had made it possible to use mere effectively. Collins's plea for sensitivity to tradition and the urban fabric while encouraging technological innovation and unprecedented programs makes his thought just as vital today as it was ahead of its time when first published.
Collins had long wished to see an affordable, fully illustrated edition of his book and McGill-Queen's University Press and the McGill School of Architecture are proud to at long last fulfil this wish. The new edition includes a biographical sketch of Collins, a brief publication history of the work, and an introductory essay by KennethFrampton that discusses the importance of the work at the time it was first published and highlights its relevance for the architectural problems of today.
Like the classic works of Hitchcock, Giedion, Pevsner, and Benevolo, Changing Ideals in Modern Architecture is essential reading and forms a striking contrast with other works on modernism, such as Reyner Banham's. It will be pertinent to all those interested in architectural history and theory, modern history, history of ideas, and aesthetics.

Resources:
c1998.
ebrary

ISBN:

0773517049 (cloth)
9780773517042 (cloth)
0773517758 (paper)
9780773517752 (paper)

Subject:

Architecture, Modern.
Architecture moderne.
Architectuurtheorieën.
Bouwkunst.
Architecture, Modern -- History

Form/genre:

History

Holdings:

Location: Library main 203873
Call No.: NA2599.8.C712.A35 1998
Status: Available