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The Classical Tradition in Architecture


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Classical architecture not only provided a repertoire of forms and building types capable of endless transformation; it was also a cultural actor and provided cultural capital, and was used to create political and religious identities. This series provides a forum for its interdisciplinary study, from antiquity to the present day. It aims to publish first-class and groundbreaking scholarship that re-examines, reinterprets or revalues the classical tradition in the widest sense. The series deals with classicism as a cultural phenomenon, a formal language of design, but also with its role in establishing the agenda, method and grammar of inquiry in Western history of art and architecture and recent reconsiderations of these roles.

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Julien-David Leroy and the Making of Architectural History

Julien-David Leroy and the Making of Architectural History

1st Edition

By Christopher Drew Armstrong
March 31, 2021

This book examines the career and publications of the French architect Julien-David Leroy (1724–1803) and his impact on architectural theory and pedagogy. Despite not leaving any built work, Leroy is a major international figure of eighteenth-century architectural theory and culture. Considering ...

renovatio urbis Architecture, Urbanism and Ceremony in the Rome of Julius II

renovatio urbis: Architecture, Urbanism and Ceremony in the Rome of Julius II

1st Edition

By Nicholas Temple
March 31, 2021

Examining the urban and architectural developments in Rome during the Pontificate of Julius II (1503–13) this book focuses on the political, religious and artistic motives behind the changes. Each chapter focuses on a particular project, from the Palazzo dei Tribunali to the Stanza della ...

Architecture, Print Culture and the Public Sphere in Eighteenth-Century France

Architecture, Print Culture and the Public Sphere in Eighteenth-Century France

1st Edition

By Richard Wittman
December 11, 2013

This book focuses on the complex ways in which architectural practice, theory, patronage, and experience became modern with the rise of a mass public and a reconfigured public sphere between the end of the seventeenth century and the French Revolution. Presenting a fresh theoretical ...

The City Rehearsed Object, Architecture, and Print in the Worlds of Hans Vredeman de Vries

The City Rehearsed: Object, Architecture, and Print in the Worlds of Hans Vredeman de Vries

1st Edition

By Christopher Heuer
November 15, 2013

The City Rehearsed offers an entirely new perspective on printed architecture in early modern Europe through the lens of Hans Vredeman de Vries. It probes the geographical encounters of dozens of engravings with contemporary texts on architecture, theatre, urbanism, art collecting, even ethnography...

The Picturesque Architecture, Disgust and Other Irregularities

The Picturesque: Architecture, Disgust and Other Irregularities

1st Edition

By John Macarthur
May 15, 2006

In this fresh and authoritative account John Macarthur presents the eighteenth century idea of the picturesque – when it was a risky term concerned with a refined taste for everyday things, such as the hovels of the labouring poor – in the light of its reception and effects in modern culture. In a ...

François Blondel Architecture, Erudition, and the Scientific Revolution

François Blondel: Architecture, Erudition, and the Scientific Revolution

1st Edition

By Anthony Gerbino
February 28, 2013

First director of the Académie royale d’architecture, François Blondel established a lasting model for architectural education that helped transform a still largely medieval profession into the one we recognize today. Most well known for his 1676 urban plan of Paris, Blondel is also celebrated as...

The Florentine Villa Architecture  History  Society

The Florentine Villa: Architecture History Society

1st Edition

By Grazia Gobbi Sica
September 12, 2012

Scholarly and innovative with visually stunning line drawings and photographs, this volume provides readers with a compelling record of the unbroken pattern of reciprocal use and exchange between the countryside and the walled city of Florence, from the thirteenth century up to the present day. ...

Festival Architecture

Festival Architecture

1st Edition

By Sarah Bonnemaison, Christine Macy
December 22, 2007

With contributions from provocative art and architectural historians, this book is a unique exposition of the temporary architecture erected for festivals and the role it has played in developing Western architectural and urban theory. Festival Architecture is arranged in historical periods – from ...

Power and Virtue Architecture and Intellectual Change in England 1660–1730

Power and Virtue: Architecture and Intellectual Change in England 1660–1730

1st Edition

By Shiqiao Li
December 12, 2006

This is the first full-length study on the connections between English architecture and intellectual change between 1660 and 1730. As new ideas developed in post-Restoration England across the realms of politics, culture, academia and morality, so too did architectural expression of these ideas. ...

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