Book Specs
Binding
Trade Paper
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Published on
Dec 7, 2000
Edition
1st Edition
Dimensions
9.37x6.57x0.75 Inches
Weight
1.73 Pounds
About the Book
This comprehensive examination of eighteenth and nineteenth-century architecture explores its extreme diversity within the context of tremendous social, economic and political upheaval. Bergdolls offers a penetrating analysis of the very ways issues of style functioned to make architecture oneof the most vitally experimental of art forms in a period of sweeping political, social, and economic change.Never before had the functional requirements and expressive capacities of architecture been tested so thoroughly and with such diversity of invention. Bergdoll traces this experimentation in a broad range of contexts, focusing in particular on the relation of architectural design to new theories ofhistory, new categories of scientific inquiry, and the broadening audience for architecture in this period of transformation. Unlike traditional surveys with long lists of buildings and architects, the themes are elucidated by in-depth coverage of key buildings which in turn are situated in boththeir local and European context.