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European Architecture 1750-1890

By Barry Bergdoll

European Architecture 1750-1890 Architecture

European Architecture 1750-1890

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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 theories of history, new categories of scientific inquiry, and the broadening audience for architecture in this period of transformation. Unlike traditional surveys with long lists of buildings and architects, the themes are elucidated by in-depth coverage of key buildings which in turn are situated in both their local and European context.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
336
Release Date:
2000-12-07
Publication Date:
2000-09-14
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0192842226
ISBN13:
9780192842220
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
794 g
Height:
169 cm
Width:
239 cm
Thickness:
21 cm
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