Classical Architecture: Language, Variety and Adaptability

Curl, James Stevens

ISBN 10: 1739822951 / ISBN 13: 9781739822958

Edité par John Hudson Publishing, 2025

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N° de réf. du vendeur V9781739822958

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• Titre: Classical Architecture: Language, Variety and Adaptability
• Éditeur: John Hudson Publishing
• Date de parution: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1739822951
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781739822958
• Reliure: Couverture souple
• État de l'article: New

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Synopsis

Classical themes are widely found in today's architecture, but this tradition stretches back 2500 years and has been at the heart of Western culture throughout that time. In this book the author outlines the principles of Classical architecture from its origins through various periods until the present, with the aid of much illustration and the detailed annotated line drawings for which he is well-known. The extensive glossary acts as a dictionary of the Classical tradition, and the author demonstrates the many themes and motifs which recur throughout its development. For architects, planners and students alike, this new and expanded edition of a celebrated book remains the benchmark for study of the Classical tradition in architecture and landscape.

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Professor JAMES STEVENS CURL has an international reputation as an architectural historian whose publications span Classical, Georgian and Victorian architecture, and with Susan Wilson he wrote the Oxford Dictionary of Architecture, published by Oxford University Press in 2016. His Making Dystopia; The Strange Rise and Survival of Architectural Barbarism (OUP, 2018) is a combative critique of the Modernist movement and, while controversial, asks questions about our urban landscapes to which answers are long overdue.