Dilemma of Style Architectural Ideas from the Picturesque to the Postmodern

Name: Dilemma of Style Architectural Ideas from the Picturesque to the Postmodern
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ISBN: 9780226121192

ISBN-10: 0226121194

ISBN-13: 9780226121192

Edition: 1987

Authors: J. Mordaunt Crook

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Is architecture in a state of crisis? Or are the critics simply in a state of confusion? Either way, the problems of architecture today are rooted in the history of architectural ideas. Those ideas--from the Picturesque to the Modern Movement; from the Neo-Classicism and the Gothic Revival to New Brutalism and Post-Modernism--form the basis of this original and highly readable book. Ranging widely over English architecture during the last two hundred years--Georgian, Victorian, Edwardian, Modern--The Dilemma of Style explores the way in which generations of architects and theorists have searched for a key to the conundrum of style. Richly illustrated and densely argued, with scores of…

Book details

List price: $75.00
Copyright year: 1987
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 11/2/1987
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 348
Size: 7.25" wide x 10.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 2.332



List of Illustrations


Preface



The Consequences of the Picturesque



Pugin and Ecclesiology



Ruskin and Viollet-le-Duc



The Architect's Dilemma



Modern Gothic



Progressive Eclecticism



From Neo-Classicism to Imperial Baroque



From Modern to Post-Modern


Notes and References


Bibliography


Index