Heavenly Mansions: and Other Essays on Architecture
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Heavenly Mansions: and Other Essays on Architecture
Book Details
- Author
- John Summerson
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Category
- Criticism
- Condition
- New
- ISBN-13
- 9780393318579
- ISBN-10
- 0393318575
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ISBN: 0393318575
Author: Summerson, John
Condition: New
Brilliantly written essays on the aesthetic principles and enduring motives of architecture. A classic of architectural history and theory, Heavenly Mansions interprets architecture as a reflection of the age in which it flowers, and traces the alternating themes of fantasy and functionalism as exemplified in various styles and in the works of a number of influential men, including Wren, Viollet-le-Duc, William Butterfield, and Le Corbusier. Succinctly summarizing 800 years of viewpoints about architecture, it ranges from Gothic architecture to the Renaissance to the influence of modern abstract art on twentieth-century architecture."Each essay is a voyage of discovery. What is so interesting and what makes Mr. Summerson the architectural critic of his generation . . . is [an] aversion to dogma. . . . It is supremely well worth reading."-Spectator Photographs and plans
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