Court & Garden: From the French Hôtel to the City of Modern ArchitectureCourt & Garden explores the social, psychological, and especially the formal transformations that led architects to trade the city of public space for the city of private icons. This detailed history of the French h(tel - an aristocratic town house developed largely in Paris between 1550 and 1800 - reveals the h(tel to be a sophisticated instrument of urbanism that both chronicles the demise of the public realm and offers architectural techniques for reconstructing a spatially rich city. Michael Dennis is a practicing architect. He has taught and lectured widely, and was the 1986 Thomas Jefferson Professor of Architecture at the University of Virginia. A Graham Foundation Book. |
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... modern urban dilemma are most elegantly de- scribed by Werner Goehner : The scientific and analytic mind , with its ten- dency to break the world into ever smaller parts , has , during the past fifty years of urban and ar- chitectural ...
... modern urban dilemma are most elegantly de- scribed by Werner Goehner : The scientific and analytic mind , with its ten- dency to break the world into ever smaller parts , has , during the past fifty years of urban and ar- chitectural ...
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... modern architecture may be of greater historical and cultural significance than a mere change of architectural clothes - from cardboard Corbusier to cardboard Classicism . The change that is now taking place in our ideas may ultimately ...
... modern architecture may be of greater historical and cultural significance than a mere change of architectural clothes - from cardboard Corbusier to cardboard Classicism . The change that is now taking place in our ideas may ultimately ...
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... modern architecture . Growing slowly , quietly maturing , modern ar- chitecture in America was like a time bomb planted during the Enlightenment , armed during the 1920s , and set to explode after World War II . And explode it did ...
... modern architecture . Growing slowly , quietly maturing , modern ar- chitecture in America was like a time bomb planted during the Enlightenment , armed during the 1920s , and set to explode after World War II . And explode it did ...
Contents
The French Hôtel | 3 |
Public versus Private | 15 |
The Prototypes | 29 |
Copyright | |
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