Quatremere de Quincy and the Invention of a Modern Language of Architecture

by Sylvia Lavin

Book Overview

In this important revisionist work, Sylvia Lavin uncovers the origins of one of the fundamental concepts of modern architectural theory, the idea that architecture is a form of language. She demonstrates how, in some little-studied texts, the late Enlightenment theorist Quatremere de Quincy transformed a simple metaphor into a framework for reconceptualizing the structure of architecture. Lavin's effort to interpret Quatremere in the context of intellectual...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262121662
• ISBN13: 9780262121668
• Release Date: September 1992
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 350 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.4"