Neoclassical and 19th Century Architecture - Robin Middleton, David Watkin ; Pier Luigi Nervi ; translation : Ellyn Childs Allison

This volume offers a complete survey of European architecture during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, examining in particular the influence of the cultural trends of the period on the architects' works. The first section of the book deals with the history of eighteenth-century architecture in France and England, countries where Cartesian-school philosophical speculation and Anglo-Saxon philosophical empiricism wielded a determining influence. After analysing the developments of the classical tradition and its propagation throughout Europe, the book studies in depth the history of architectural movements, comprising neo-classicism, neo-Renaissance and neo-Gothic architecture. The outstanding, forerunning personalities of this brilliant artistic period who, in the course of the nineteenth century, offered fecund theoretic and stylistic contributions, include Gottfried Semper, John Ruskin and Eugene Viollet-le Duc.
Hardcover, 465 pages , ENG, 285 x 255 x 45 mm, dustjacket, in very good condition, 664 illustrations in b/w. ISBN 9780810910140. [Auteur: Robin Middleton, David Watkin ; Pier Luigi Nervi ; translation : Ellyn Childs Allison] [Pagina's: 465] [Uitgever: , Abrams, 1980] [Jaar: 1980] [Titel: Neoclassical and 19th Century Architecture]