Architecture of modern Italy. Volume 1, [electronic book] : the challenge of tradition, 1750-1900 / Terry Kirrk.
By: Kirk, Terry [author]
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BookPublisher: New York : Princeton Architectural Press, [2005]Copyright date: ©2005Description: online resource (280 pages) : illustratons.Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 1568984200 (paperback); 9781568986319 (e-Book); 1568984367 (vol. 2. paperback); 1568984200 (set, paperback).Subject(s): Architecture -- Italy | Architecture, ModernDDC classification: 720.945 Online resources: e-Book | Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| e-BOOK | MTU Bishopstown Library eBook | 720.945 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Not for loan |
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This groundbreaking and authoritative two-volume survey is the first truly comprehensive history of modern Italian architecture and urbanism to appear in any language. Told in lively prose, it recounts more than 250 years of experimentation, creativity, and turmoil that have shaped the landscape of contemporary Italy.
Volume I: The Challenge of Tradition, 17501900 , explores the dynamic balancing of forces demanded by a reverence for Italy's unparalleled architectural patrimony and a desire for new means of expression and technological innovation. From the neoclassical fantasies of Giovanni Battista Piranesi to the spectacular steeland-glass gallerias of Milan and Naples, it reveals an underappreciated history of richness and complexity.
The Architecture of Modern Italy is exhaustively illustrated with rare period images, new photography, maps, drawings, and plans. With Colin Rowe's Italian Architecture of the 16th Century , it provides a nearly complete overview of the history of Italian architecture.
Illustrated with duotone images, and part of an authoritative and comprehensive two volume set that explores modern Italian architecture, this volume covers the period 1750-1900.
Volume two covers the period of 1900-: "Architecture of modern Italy. Volume 2 visions of utopia, 1900-present".
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Architecture of the Italian Enlightenment, 1750–1800 -- Napoleon in italy, 1800–1815 -- Restoration and romanticism, 1815–1860 -- Unification and the nation's capitals, 1860–1900.
Electronic reproduction.: ProQuest LibCentral. Mode of access: World Wide Web.