Symbolic space : French Enlightenment architecture and its legacy / Richard A. Etlin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Etlin, Richard A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959.

Cret, Paul Philippe, 1876-1945.

Neoclassicism (Architecture)--France.

Neoclassicism (Architecture).

Symbolism in architecture.

Neoclassicism (Architecture)--Influence.

France.

Architecture, Modern--17th century--France.

Architecture, Modern.

Architecture, Modern--18th century--France.

Symbolism in architecture--France.

Cret, Paul Philippe.

Wright, Frank Lloyd.

Kahn, Louis I., 1901-1974.

Kahn, Louis I.

Architecture--France--History--18th century.

Architecture.

History.

Semiotics.

Physical Description:

xxv, 235 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1994.

Summary:

"For Etlin, the eighteenth-century city was a place in which actual physical space was subjected to a complex mental layering of conceptual spaces. He focuses on the design theory of Boullee and Durand and charts their legacy through the architecture of Paul Philippe Cret, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Louis Kahn. He defines the distinctive features of neoclassicism and outlines the new grammar for classical architecture articulated by theorists and architects such as Laugier, Leroy, and Ledoux."--publisher's description.

Notes:

Errata slip inserted.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-222) and index.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Albert M. Greenfield Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

0226220842

OCLC:

29798986