Opis: A Landscape of Architecture, History and Fiction - Jonathan Hill

Architecture can be analogous to a history, a fiction, and a landscape. We expect a history or a novel to be written in words, but they can also be cast in concrete or seeded in soil. The catalyst to this tradition was the simultaneous and interdependent emergence in the eighteenth century of new art forms: the picturesque landscape, analytical history, and English novel. Each of them instigated a creative and questioning response to empiricism's detailed investigation of subjective experience and the natural world, and together they stimulated a design practice and lyrical environmentalism that profoundly influenced subsequent centuries. Associating the changing natural world with journeys in self-understanding, and the design process with a visual and spatial autobiography, this book describes journeys between London and the North Sea in successive centuries, analysing an enduring and evolving tradition from the picturesque and romanticism to modernism. Creative architects have often looked to the past to understand the present and imagine the future. Twenty-first-century architects need to appreciate the shock of the old as well as the shock of the new.List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction 1. A Hellish Cloud and a Sublime Sea 2. Architecture in Ruins 3. The History Man Conclusion Bibliography Index

Szczegóły: A Landscape of Architecture, History and Fiction - Jonathan Hill

Tytuł: A Landscape of Architecture, History and Fiction
Autor: Jonathan Hill
Producent: Routledge
ISBN: 9781138852280
Rok produkcji: 2015
Ilość stron: 236
Oprawa: Twarda

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