Morality and Architecture Revisited

Name: Morality and Architecture Revisited
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ISBN: 9780226874821

ISBN-10: 0226874826

ISBN-13: 9780226874821

Edition: 2001

Authors: David Watkin

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When Morality and Architecture was first published in 1977, it received passionate praise and equally passionate criticism. An editorial in Apollo, entitled "The Time Bomb," claimed that "it deserved to become a set book in art school and University art history departments," and the Times Literary Supplement savaged it as an example of "that kind of vindictiveness of which only Christians seem capable." Here, for the first time, is the story of the book's impact. In writing his groundbreaking polemic, David Watkin had taken on the entire modernist establishment, tracing it back to Pugin, Viollet-le-Duc, Corbusier, and others who claimed that their chosen style had to be truthful and…

Book details

List price: $59.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 8/1/2001
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 191
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.704
Language: English



Preface Prologue: The Philosophic Background Morality and Architecture Prefatory Note


Introduction



The Theme in the Nineteenth Century



Pugin



Viollet-le-Duc



The Theme in the Twentieth Century



Lethaby



Brave New World



Furneaux Jordan



Pevsner



Early Writings



The Historic Mission



'Historicism' Conclusion References Epilogue: The Critical Reaction The Position Today


Index