Morality and Architecture: The Development of a Theme in Architectural History and Theory from the Gothic Revival to the Modern MovementMorality and architecture has been described variously as brave, mischievous, brilliant, reactionary, and a 'time bomb'. It is undoubtedly controversial--a frank and at times fearlessly polemical exposure of progressivist ideology in architectural criticism. |
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Introduction | 1 |
THE THEME IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY | 17 |
THE THEME IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY | 33 |
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A. W. N. Pugin achievement aesthetic anonymous approach archi architect architectural history argued argument art and architecture art history Art Nouveau artistic Baroque Bauhaus belief building called cathedrals Christian church claims collective unconscious collectivist consequence construction Corbusier cultural doctrine E. H. Gombrich eighteenth century England English essence essentially European Architecture example expression fact fashion function German Giedion Gombrich Gothic architecture Gropius Gropius's historian historicism historicist human Ibid idea ideal individual Industrial inevitably interpretation Jordan Le Corbusier Lethaby look M. R. James means medieval modern architecture Modern Design Modern Movement moral Morris nature Nikolaus Pevsner nineteenth century Outline of European painting particular period Pevsner political Popper principle produced Pugin religion Renaissance revival Richards role Romantic simply social society spirit style Summerson taste technological tecture theme theory tion tradition truth ture twentieth century Victorian Architecture Viollet-le-Duc Walter Gropius Wölfflin writes Zeitgeist