The Emergence of Modern Architecture: A Documentary History from 1000 to 1810

by Alexander Tzonis and Liane Lefaivre

Book Overview

A cognitive history of the emergence of modern architecture. Cutting across disciplinarian and institutional divisions as we know them today, this book reconstructs developments within the framework of a cognitive history of the past. Modern is here taken to mean the radical re-thinking of architecture from the end of the tenth century in Europe to the end of the eighteenth century. Among the key debates that mark the period are those that oppose...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415260256
• ISBN13: 9780415260251
• Release Date: March 2004
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 533 Pages
• Weight: 2.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.6" x 9.9"