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A history of architectural theory : from Vitruvius to the present / Hanno-Walter Kruft ; translated by Ronald Taylor, Elsie Callander, and Antony Wood.

By: Kruft, Hanno-Walter.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: London : New York : Zwemmer ; Princeton Architectural Press, c1994Description: 706 p., [95] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 1568980019 (Princeton); 1568980108 (Princeton : pbk.); 0302006036 (Zwemmer); 0302006222 (Zwemmer : pbk.).Other title: Architectural theory.Subject(s): Architecture -- Philosophy | Architecture -- HistoriographyDDC classification: 720.1
Contents:
Vitruvius and architectural theory in antiquity -- The Vitruvian tradition and architectural theory in the Middle Ages -- Leonne Battiste Alberti -- Quattrocento theory after Alberti -- Vitruvian tradition in the renaissance -- Sixteenth-century codification -- Palladio and the North Italian Humanists -- The counter reformation, Baroque and Neo-classicsm -- The theory of fortification -- France in the sixteenth century -- The classical synthesis in seventeenth-century France -- The foundation of the french academy of architecture and the subsequent challenge to it -- Relativist architectural aesthetics, the enlightenment and revolutionary architecture -- Germany and the Netherlands in the sixteenth century -- The German speaking regions in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries -- The italian contribution in the eighteenth century -- Eighteenth-century views of antiquity -- The role of Spain from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century -- Developments in Spain from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century -- Concepts of the garden -- Nineteenth-century France and the Ecole des Beaux-Arts -- Germany in the nunteenth century -- England in the nineteenth century -- The United States from Thomas Jefferson th the Chicago school -- Germany and its neighbours 1890s-1945 -- France;1900-1945 -- Italy:futurism and rationalism -- The Soviet Union -- The United States in the first half of the twentieth century -- Since 1945.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

As the first comprehensive encyclopedic survey of Western architectural theory from Vitruvius to the present, this book is an essential resource for architects, students, teachers, historians, and theorists. Using only original sources, Kruft has undertaken the monumental task of researching, organizing, and analyzing the significant statements put forth by architectural theorists over the last two thousand years. The result is a text that is authoritative and complete, easy to read without being reductive.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [613]-684) and index.

Vitruvius and architectural theory in antiquity -- The Vitruvian tradition and architectural theory in the Middle Ages -- Leonne Battiste Alberti -- Quattrocento theory after Alberti -- Vitruvian tradition in the renaissance -- Sixteenth-century codification -- Palladio and the North Italian Humanists -- The counter reformation, Baroque and Neo-classicsm -- The theory of fortification -- France in the sixteenth century -- The classical synthesis in seventeenth-century France -- The foundation of the french academy of architecture and the subsequent challenge to it -- Relativist architectural aesthetics, the enlightenment and revolutionary architecture -- Germany and the Netherlands in the sixteenth century -- The German speaking regions in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries -- The italian contribution in the eighteenth century -- Eighteenth-century views of antiquity -- The role of Spain from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century -- Developments in Spain from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century -- Concepts of the garden -- Nineteenth-century France and the Ecole des Beaux-Arts -- Germany in the nunteenth century -- England in the nineteenth century -- The United States from Thomas Jefferson th the Chicago school -- Germany and its neighbours 1890s-1945 -- France;1900-1945 -- Italy:futurism and rationalism -- The Soviet Union -- The United States in the first half of the twentieth century -- Since 1945.

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CHOICE Review

Kruft's last major book is one of the most significant contributions to architectural theory published in this century. It is a broad, comprehensive survey with particular emphasis on theories influencing the 20th century and on other viewpoints given little publication in English, such as German aesthetic theory of the Goethe period. It is a daunting tome for students; but, with 163 pages of endnotes, 207 illustrations, 71 pages of bibliography, and an extensive index, it will become an essential tool for researchers of architectural theory. Libraries holding Joseph Rykwert's The First Moderns (CH, Dec'80) and anything by Alberto Perez-Gomez should acquire this valuable book on architectural theory. Upper-division undergraduate; graduate; faculty. G. F. Hisel; University of Kentucky