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Hardcover The Dilemma of Style: Architectural Ideas from the Picturesque to the Postmodern Book

ISBN: 0226121194

ISBN13: 9780226121192

The Dilemma of Style: Architectural Ideas from the Picturesque to the Postmodern

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Is architecture in a state of crisis? Or are the critics simply in a state of confusion? Either way, the problems of architecture today are rooted in the history of architectural ideas. Those ideas--from the Picturesque to the Modern Movement; from the Neo-Classicism and the Gothic Revival to New Brutalism and Post-Modernism--form the basis of this original and highly readable book. Ranging widely over English architecture during the last two hundred years--Georgian, Victorian, Edwardian, Modern-- The Dilemma of Style explores the way in which generations of architects and theorists have searched for a key to the conundrum of style. Richly illustrated and densely argued, with scores of quotations and hundreds of references, this is not another history of English architecture: it is almost an encyclopaedia of architectural ideas. This challenging book confronts one of the central problems of architectural theory: the nature--and necessity--of style. This description may be from another edition of this product.

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