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Architectural theory : from the Renaissance to the present /

"The present volume discusses the most important treatises on architecture from the Renaissance to today. The authors explore the origins of each treatise and examine the motives that have prompted architects over the past 500 years to set down their ideas on paper. Grouped by nation and epoch,...

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Corporate Authors: Kunstbibliothek Berlin, Germany
Group Author: Evers, Bernd, 1941; Thoenes, Christof
Published: Taschen,
Publisher Address: Köln :
Publication Dates: [2015]
Literature type: Book
Language: English
German
Subjects:
Architecture > Philosophy
Architecture > Historiography
Architecture > Philosophie
Architecture > Historiographie
Architectuurtheorieën
Summary: "The present volume discusses the most important treatises on architecture from the Renaissance to today. The authors explore the origins of each treatise and examine the motives that have prompted architects over the past 500 years to set down their ideas on paper. Grouped by nation and epoch, the writings of Leon Battista Alberti, Andrea Palladio, Marc-Antoine Laugier, Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, John Shute Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach, Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, Aldo Rossi and Rem Koolhaas are just some of those discussed"--Inside front cover.
Item Description: "Original edition: ©2003 TASCHEN GmbH"
Carrier Form: 845 pages : illustrations (some color), plans (some color) ; 21 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 826-833) and index.
ISBN: 9783836557467
3836557460
Index Number: NA2500
CLC: TU-021
Call Number: TU-021/A673-4
Contents: Italy /
France /
Spain /
England /
Germany /
20th century /

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