European Architecture 1750-1890

Name: European Architecture 1750-1890
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ISBN: 9780192842220

ISBN-10: 0192842226

ISBN-13: 9780192842220

Edition: 2000

Authors: Barry Bergdoll

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This comprehensive examination of eighteenth and nineteenth-century architecture explores its extreme diversity within the context of tremendous social, economic and political upheaval. Bergdolls offers a penetrating analysis of the very ways issues of style functioned to make architecture one of the most vitally experimental of art forms in a period of sweeping political, social, and economic change. Never before had the functional requirements and expressive capacities of architecture been tested so thoroughly and with such diversity of invention. Bergdoll traces this experimentation in a broad range of contexts, focusing in particular on the relation of architectural design to new…

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List price: $29.99
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/7/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 9.37" wide x 6.57" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.738
Language: English



Introduction



Progress, Enlightenment, Experiment



Neoclassicism: Science, Archaeology, and the Doctrin of Progress



What is ENlightenment? The City and the Public, 1750-89



Experimental Architecture: Landscape Gardens and Reform Institution



Revolutions



Revolutionary Architecture



Nationalism, Historicism, Technology



Nationalism and Stylistic Debates in Architecture



Historicism and New Building Types



New Technology and Architectural Form, 1851-90



The City Transformed, 1848-90



The Crisis of Historicism, 1870-93


Notes


Timeline


Glossary


Further Reading


Picture Credits


Index