The Conservation Movement a History of Architectural Preservation: Antiquity to Modernity - Couverture rigide

Glendinning, Miles

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0415499992 ISBN 13 : 9780415499996

Editeur : Routledge, 2013

Synopsis

Shortlisted for the 2014 SAHGB Alice Davis Hitchcock Medallion. Certainly, ancient structures have long been treated with care and reverence in many societies, including classical Rome and Greece. But only in modern Europe and America, in the last two centuries, has this care been elaborated and energised into a forceful, dynamic ideology: a 'Conservation Movement', infused with a sense of historical destiny and loss, that paradoxically shared many of the characteristics of Enlightenment modernity. Miles Glendinning's new book authoritatively presents, for the first time, the entire history of architectural conservation, and traces its dramatic fluctuations in ideas and popularity, ending by questioning whether its recent international ascendancy can last indefinitely.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Miles Glendinning is Professor of Architectural Conservation at the University of Edinburgh and Director of the Scottish Centre for Conservation Studies. He has published extensively on modernist and contemporary architecture and housing: his books include the award-winning Tower Block (with Stefan Muthesius), Modern Architect, on the life and times of Sir Robert Matthew, and Architecture's Evil Empire, a polemical evaluation of contemporary 'iconic modernism'. His current research projects include an in-depth investigation of mass housing in Hong Kong and Singapore.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0415499992
• ISBN 13: 9780415499996
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 544
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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