Modern Architectural Theory: A Historical Survey, 1673-1968

Harry Francis Mallgrave

Cambridge University Press, Jul 13, 2009 - Architecture - 522 pages

Harry Mallgrave's comprehensive survey of architectural theory, primarily in Europe and the United States, contextualizes architectural discourse within its social and political atmosphere over three centuries of development. He explores the philosophical and conceptual evolution of its ideas, the relation of theory to the practice of building, and, most importantly, the words of the architects themselves as they contentiously shaped their particular niche of Western civilization over time.

About the author

Harry Mallgrave is Associate Professor of History and Theory at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago. His 1996 book Gottfried Semper: Architect of the Nineteenth Century was awarded the Alice Davis Hitchcock Award by the Society of Architectural Historians.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Modern Architectural Theory: A Historical Survey, 1673-1968
• Author: Harry Francis Mallgrave
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2009
• ISBN: 0521130484, 9780521130486
• Length: 522 pages
• Subjects: Architecture / Criticism; Architecture / General; Art / General; Art / History / General