Classical Architecture: The Living Tradition - Couverture rigide

Porphyrios, Demetri

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0070504784 ISBN 13 : 9780070504783

Editeur : McGraw-Hill Inc.,US, 1992

Synopsis

This study explores the profound, and continuing, influence of classical Greek and Roman design and construction techniques on postmodern and neomodern architecture throughout the western world. Architects, interior designers, and builders should find refreshing insights on the theory of imitation and its role in traditional and modernist art, tectonics in architecture, the classical order, character and style, as well as the traditional city. A detailed appendix features works of Plato, Cicero, Alberti, Hegel, and other great classicists.

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

Demetri Porphyrios has an international reputation as an architect and theorist. He has built in England, Europe, the Middle East and America and has received many awards and honorary degrees for his excellence in architectural and urban design. He was educated at Princeton University where he received his master of Architecture and Ph.D. in the History an dTheory of Architecture. He holds an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Notre Dame and he has been Thomas Jefferson Professor at the University of Virginia and Davenport and Bishop Professoe at Yale University. He has taught at the Architectural Association, the Polytechnci of Central London and the Royal College of Art. He is a Member of the Council of the Green Archaeological Committee (UK), Trustee of the Saint Catherine Foundation, Archon of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, Member of Europa Nostra and Member of the Society of Architectural Historians. He has recently been appointed Member of CABE Design Review Committee and in 2005 was awarded the Driehaus International Prize in Architecture. His publications include Sources of Modern Eclecticism; On the Methodology of Architectural History; Classicism is not a Style; Building and Rational Architecture and Classical Architecture.

Présentation de l'éditeur

A perceptive exploration of architecture as the art of building tracing it back to its roots in Ancient Greece and Rome. In a series of tightly argued essays, the author discusses the role of imitation, tectonics, ornament and originality in architecture, demonstrating that the classical is that which speaks of tradition always in a modern voice. 'A work is classical,' Porphyrios writes, 'not because it is immutable, eternal and sacred but because it continually searches for and brings out the new.' Classical Architecture is both a pedagogic and critical book that has implications for our present-day theory of style, our view of history, and for the practice of architecture. It looks at the true meaning of tradition and how it relates to modernity. The extensive appendix brings together some of the most important classical texts relating to architecture. Lavishly illustrated in colour, and featuring numerous line drawings, Classical Architecture, also published in paperback at an accessible price, is an invaluable book for architects, architecture students, readers from a wide range of disciplines, the general public, and indeed anyone who cares about the place of architecture in modern life.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: McGraw-Hill Inc.,US
• Date d'édition: 1992
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0070504784
• ISBN 13: 9780070504783
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 155
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible