Rykwert: The ∗first∗ Moderns The Architects Of The Eighteenth Century (paper) - Softcover

Rykwert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0262680394 ISBN 13: 9780262680394

Publisher: MIT Press, 1984

Synopsis

Traces the development of European architecture from 1660 to 1780, discusses the concepts of classic and neoclassic style, and examines the influence of philosophy on architecture

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- Frances Yates, "The Times Literary Supplement" " This is a product of rare scholarship. A cultural history of European architecture between 1660 and 1780 ... it is the boldest history of architecture to have appeared since Wittkower's Architectural Principles." - Jules Lubbock, "Art History" " The range of Rykwert's learning is enormous. History of gardens, Chinese influences, festival architecture, all contribute to the overflowing wealth. Great figures in the history of thought and science - Bacon, Newton, Vico - are seen from new angles.... This is no superficial history of styles, no conventional history of ideas. It invigorates both through the attempt at a new kind of history of architecture." - Frances Yates, "The Times Literary Supplement" & quot; This is a product of rare scholarship. A cultural history of European architecture between 1660 and 1780 ... it is the boldest history of architecture to have appeared since Wittkower's Architectural Principles.& quot; - Jules Lubbock, Art History & quot; The range of Rykwert's learning is enormous. History of gardens, Chinese influences, festival architecture, all contribute to the overflowing wealth. Great figures in the history of thought and science - Bacon, Newton, Vico - are seen from new angles.... This is no superficial history of styles, no conventional history of ideas. It invigorates both through the attempt at a new kind of history of architecture.& quot; - Frances Yates, The Times Literary Supplement "This is a product of rare scholarship. A cultural history of European architecture between 1660 and 1780 ... it is the boldest history of architecture to have appeared since Wittkower's Architectural Principles."-- Jules Lubbock, "Art History" "The range of Rykwert's learning is enormous. History of gardens, Chinese influences, festival architecture, all contribute to the overflowing wealth. Great figures in the history of thought and science--Bacon, Newton, Vico--are seen from new angles.... This is no superficial history of styles, no conventional history of ideas. It invigorates both through the attempt at a new kind of history of architecture."-- Frances Yates, "The Times Literary Supplement"

Edition details

• Publisher: MIT Press
• Publication date: 1984
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0262680394
• ISBN 13: 9780262680394
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 585