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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      25 July 2009
      18 April 2005
      ISBN:
      9780511497728
      9780521130486
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511497728
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      Dimensions:
      (279 x 215 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      1.7kg, 522 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Art, Architecture
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    Modern Architectural Theory is the first book to provide a comprehensive survey of architectural theory, primarily in Europe and the United States, during three centuries of development. In this synthetic overview, Harry Mallgrave examines architectural discourse within its social and political context. He explores the philosophical and conceptual evolution of its ideas, discusses the relation of theory to the practice of building, and, most importantly, considers the words of the architects themselves, as they contentiously shaped Western architecture. He also examines the compelling currents of French rationalist and British empiricist thought, radical reformation of the theory during the Enlightenment, the intellectual ambitions and historicist debates of the nineteenth century, and the distinctive varieties of modern theory in the twentieth century up to the profound social upheaval of the 1960s. Modern Architectural Theory challenges many assumptions about architectural modernism and uncovers many new dimensions of the debates about modernism.

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    ‘Mallgrave's book will achieve preeminence … for assembling an immense amount of architectural material and summarizing it in a highly readable, critical, and at times compelling fashion.’

    Source: Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians

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