Changing Ideals in Modern Architecture - Softcover

Collins, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0773500480 ISBN 13: 9780773500488

Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1965

Synopsis

This text is an attempt to deal comprehensively with all the various theories and ideas which, during the course of the last two hundred years, have made modern architecture what it is today. Professor Collins has avoided the more usual archaeological approach and has concentrated on describing the various motives which have caused architects to select one form rather than another. Thus, since this is a history of ideas, it should be of interest not only to those who specialize in architecture, and have read the standard works of Hitchcock, Giedion, Pevsner, and Joedicke, but also to all those with a general interest in modern history and the philosophy of art. It explains what Revivalism, Rationalism, Eclecticism, and Functionalism really meant to those who practised them; it deals with the influence of the other arts and sciences on architectureal theory; in fact, it analyzes all the notions which are most commonly used in discussions about modern architecture, yet have implications frequently unsuspected or overlooked.

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Review

"Even now, after so much of its substance has been elaborated by subsequent scholarship, Changing Ideals in Modern Architecture remains a pioneering achievement. It still provides an ideological history of the modern movement, covering an extremely wide trajectory and one which is animated throughout by a sharp critical bias. Its challenging originality stems from the way in which Collins constantly begs the question as to the fundamental nature of tectonic modernity as this has evolved over the last two centuries." Kenneth Frampton, from the Introduction

About the Author

Peter Collins McGill University, Canada

Edition details

• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Publication date: 1965
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0773500480
• ISBN 13: 9780773500488
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 368