European architecture 1750-1890 / Barry Bergdoll.

Main entry:

Bergdoll, Barry.

Title & Author:

European architecture 1750-1890 / Barry Bergdoll.

Publication:

Description:

vi, 326 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.

Series:

Oxford history of art

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 280-284) and index.
Introduction. -- Neoclassicism: science, archaeology, and the doctrine of progress -- What is enlightenment? The city and the public, 1750-89 -- Experimental architecture: landscape gardens and reform institutions -- Revolutionary architecture -- Nationalism and stylistic debates in architecture -- Historicism and new building types -- New technology and architectural form, 1851-90 -- City transformed, 1848-90 -- Crisis of historicism, 1870-93.

Summary:

"This book explores the innovative ways in which architects from Soufflot and Adam to Viollet-le-Duc and Semper responded to the new challenges of a rapidly changing modern world. A wide range of buildings were created to house railway stations, prisons, department stores, and museums; the entirely new products of the industrial, political and economic revolutions sweeping Europe." "Bergdoll argues that this period of constantly changing architecture, encompassing Neoclassicism and the Gothic Revival, constitutes one of the great experimental epochs in European architectural history. Famous cities and buildings such as the Houses of Parliament, the Eiffel Tower, and the Ringstrasse in Vienna are all covered in this indispensable guide to the exciting architectural developments of this period."--Jacket.

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Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

0192842226 (paperback)
9780192842220 (paperback)

Subject:

Neoclassicism (Architecture) Europe.
Architecture Europe History 18th century.
Architecture Europe History 19th century.
Architecture Europe 18th century.
Architecture Europe 19th century.
Néoclassicisme (Architecture) Europe.
Architecture Europe 18e siècle.
Architecture Europe 19e siècle.
Architecture.
Neoclassicism (Architecture)
Bouwkunst.
Arquitetura.
1750-1799.
19e siècle.
Architecture européenne.
Néoclassicisme (Architecture)
Europe.
Europa.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Oxford history of art.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 212888
Call No.: NA956.B4 2000
Status: Available

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