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Architectural Theory, Volume 2 An Anthology from 1871 To 2005

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ISBN-10: 1405102608

ISBN-13: 9781405102605

Edition: 2008

Authors: Harry Francis Mallgrave, Christina Contandriopoulos

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This second volume of the landmark Architectural Theory anthology surveys the development of architectural theory from the Franco-Prussian war of 1871 until the end of the twentieth century. Together with volume I, it is the first anthology to follow the full range of architectural literature from its beginnings in classical times to its impact today.Drawing on diverse international texts, this book explores various reform movements in Europe and North America, including Arts & amp; Crafts; spans the technological and conceptual innovations of the late-nineteenth century in connection with the rise and development of modern theory; and reviews early critiques of modernism, the "post-modern…    
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List price: $83.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/4/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 656
Size: 6.60" wide x 9.60" long x 1.70" tall
Weight: 2.684
Language: English

Acknowledgements
General Introduction
Early Modernism.
The Arts and Crafts Movement in Great Britain.
Introduction
John Ruskin from Fors Clavigera (1871)
Christopher Dresser from Studies in Design (1874-76)
Richard Redgrave from Manual of Design (1876)
William Morris from The Prospects of Architecture in Civilization (1881)
Christopher Dresser from Japan: Its Architecture, Art, and Art Manufacturers (1882)
Oscar Wilde from Art and the Handicraftsman (1882)
Arthur H. Mackmurdo from Arbitrary Conditions of Art (1884)
William Morris from The Revival of Architecture (1888)
Walter Crane from The Claims of Decorative Art (1892)
John D. Sedding from Design (1891?)
Charles Rennie Mackintosh from Architecture (1893)
C. Robert Ashbee from A Few Chapters in Workshop Re-Construction and Citizenship (1894).
Continental Reforms
Introduction
Jakob Falke from Art in the House (1871)
George Hirth from The German Renaissance Room (1880)
Robert Dohme from The English House (1888)
Cornelius Gurlitt from Inside the Middle-Class House (1888)
Louis-Charles Boileau from Shops of the Bon March� in Paris—Grand Staircase (1876)
Charles Blanc from The Fine Arts at the Universal Exposition of 1878 (1878)
Eug�ne-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc from The Buildings of the Universal Exposition of 1878 (1878)
�mile Zola from Au Bonheur des Dames (1883)
Joris-Karl Huysmans from Against Nature (1884)
Samuel Bing from Artistic Japan (1888)
Joseph Eugene Anatole de Baudot from The Architecture of the Universal Exposition of 1889 (1889)
Louis Gonse from The Architecture of the Universal Exposition of 1889 (1889)
Edmond de Goncourt from Journal, m�moires de la vie litt�raire (1895).
Reforms in the United States
Introduction
Henry Hudson Holly from Modern Dwellings: Their Construction, Decoration, and Furniture (1876)
Robert Swain Peabody from Georgian Homes of New England (1877)
Clarence Cook from House Beautiful (1877)
Leopold Eidlitz from The Nature and Function of Art: More Especially of Architecture (1881)
Louis Sullivan from Characteristic and Tendencies of American Architecture (1885)
George William Sheldon from Artistic Country-Seats (1886)
John Root, et al from What are the Present Tendencies in Architectural Design in America (1887)
Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer from Henry Hobson Richardson and His Works (1888)
Friedrich Baumann from Thoughts on Architecture (1889)
Louis Sullivan from Ornament in Architecture (1892)
Montgomery Schuler from Last Words about the World's Fair (1894)
Louis Sullivan from Emotion Architecture as Compared with Intellectual (1894).
Conceptual Underpinnings of Germa