From Signs to Design: Environmental Process and Reform in Renaissance Rome

by Charles Burroughs

Book Overview

Burroughs brings an especially wide range of explanatory models--from social history, cultural anthropology, iconology and semiotics--to bear in his analysis of urban reform and the shifts in architectural design that emerged in early Renaissance Rome.

Applying the latest practices from critical theory and discourse to the built environment of early Renaissance Rome, Charles Burroughs sees the city as a field of visual communication...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262022982
• ISBN13: 9780262022989
• Release Date: December 1990
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 358 Pages
• Weight: 2.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.3" x 10.4"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher