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Architectural Theory

Edited by Harry Francis Mallgrave

Routledge – 2014 – 1,600 pages

Series: Critical Concepts in Architecture

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    978-0-415-81668-7
    May 1st 2014
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Description

This collection offers a comprehensive selection of journal articles and book chapters that provide readers with an historical overview of Architectural Theory, collating the canonical writings on the subject in one essential reference work. With each section beginning with an editorial introduction by the Editor explaining the context and choice of contents, this set is organised chronologically for ease of use.

Each section will consider the key theories predominant in the time period with a broad range of representative published sources included. International in scope and reflecting various approaches in the best scholarship running up to the beginning of the 21st Century, this will be of major assistance for students of architecture quickly locating the best information.

Contents

Volume 1: Architectural Theory until 1700 1. The Beginnings 2. The First Monuments 3. Greece and Hellenic Culture 4. Roman Architecture 5. Byzantine and Islamic Architecture 6. Romanesque and Gothic Architecture 7. Asian Renaissance 8. Renaissance in Italy 9. The Diffusion of the Humanist Ideal 10. Baroque and Rococo 11. Quarrel of Ancients and Moderns Volume 2: Theory in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century 1. Palladianism 2. The Early Picturesque Movement 3. Neoclassicism 4. Architecture Parlante 5. Picturesque Theory in Great Britain 6. Post-Revolutionary Theory in France 7. "Battle of the Styles" in Great Britain 8. The German Style Debate 9. The Birth of American Theory 10. Three European Directions at Mid-Century 11. The Arts and Crafts Movement 12. Toward a Psychology of Architecture Volume 3: Modernism 1. Early American Modernism 2. Soundings in Vienna 3. German Modernism at the Turn of the Century 4. The Rise of the Avant-Garde 5. Modernism in Holland and France 6. The Bauhaus 7. American Modernism in the 1920s 8. CIAM and the International Style 9. Modern is Regional 10. Masters of Modernism 11. Gathering Storms 12. Culture Wars of the 1960s Volume 4: Postmodernism to the Present 1. Populism versus Neo-Rationalism 2. Semiotics and Postmodernism 3. Criticality and the Avant-Garde 4. Gray and White 5. Critiques of Postmodernism 6. Post-Metabolism 7. Critical Regionalism 8. Poststructuralism and Deconstruction 9. Classicism and Tradition 10. The Greening of Architecture 11. Digital Design 12. Post-Critical Theory 13. The Turn of the Millennium

Name: Architectural Theory (Hardback)Routledge 
Description: Edited by Harry Francis Mallgrave. This collection offers a comprehensive selection of journal articles and book chapters that provide readers with an historical overview of Architectural Theory, collating the canonical writings on the subject in one essential reference work. With each...
Categories: Architectural Reference, Theory of Architecture, Major Works, General Reference, Architectural History