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Author : David Watkin
Release : 1987
Genre : Architecture
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Book Synopsis German Architecture and the Classical Ideal, 1740-1840 by : David Watkin
Download or read book German Architecture and the Classical Ideal, 1740-1840 written by David Watkin. This book was released on 1987. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Watkin
Release : 1987
Genre : Architecture
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Book Synopsis German Architecture and the Classical Ideal by : David Watkin
Download or read book German Architecture and the Classical Ideal written by David Watkin. This book was released on 1987. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: German Classicism is a powerful architectural force that is only now being fully studied. As this extensively illustrated book shows, palaces, private houses, public buildings, and urban planning all received patronage on a scale that could not be paralleled in other countries. Of the host of architects whose genius was given such superb opportunities in the years 1740 to 1840, only Karl Freidrich Schinkel's name has become widely known; yet this book points out, all over Germany rulers were dramatically transforming their capitals, and the achievements of Weinbrenner at Karlsruhe, Moller at Darmstadt, or Klenze at Munich are by any standards astonishing. The first part of the book is by David Watkin, a leading British authority on the Classical Revival. He provides a historical account that sets German Neoclassicism in its regional and political context, and notes the impact of France and England and the Franco-Prussian style before Schinkel. He discusses Schinkel's own work, that of Leo von Klenze, and Neoclassicism in North and South Germany. The book's second part consists of an index of buildings prepared by Tilman Mellinghoff. Here every important Neoclassical building (both existing and destroyed) is listed and described under its location. The index is an invaluable source of information available nowhere else in English. David Watkin is a Fellow of Peterhouse and a University Lecturer in History of Art at Cambridge University. Tilman Mellinghoff is an Assistant Lecturer at the Universities of Cologne and Bonn.
Author : Hanno-Walter Kruft
Release : 1994
Genre : Architecture
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Book Rating : 102/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis History of Architectural Theory by : Hanno-Walter Kruft
Download or read book History of Architectural Theory written by Hanno-Walter Kruft. This book was released on 1994. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : David Watkin
Release : 2005
Genre : Architecture
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Book Rating : 599/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis A History of Western Architecture by : David Watkin
Download or read book A History of Western Architecture written by David Watkin. This book was released on 2005. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of Western architecture from the earliest times in Mesopotamia and Egypt to the dramatic impact of CAD on architectural practice at the beginning of the 21st century.
Author : Nancy Thomson de Grummond
Release : 2015-05-11
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Encyclopedia of the History of Classical Archaeology by : Nancy Thomson de Grummond
Download or read book Encyclopedia of the History of Classical Archaeology written by Nancy Thomson de Grummond. This book was released on 2015-05-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With 1,125 entries and 170 contributors, this is the first encyclopedia on the history of classical archaeology. It focuses on Greek and Roman material, but also covers the prehistoric and semi-historical cultures of the Bronze Age Aegean, the Etruscans, and manifestations of Greek and Roman culture in Europe and Asia Minor. The Encyclopedia of the History of Classical Archaeology includes entries on individuals whose activities influenced the knowledge of sites and monuments in their own time; articles on famous monuments and sites as seen, changed, and interpreted through time; and entries on major works of art excavated from the Renaissance to the present day as well as works known in the Middle Ages. As the definitive source on a comparatively new discipline - the history of archaeology - these finely illustrated volumes will be useful to students and scholars in archaeology, the classics, history, topography, and art and architectural history.
