Author: Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Publisher: Getty Publications

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 9780892366361

An impassioned plea for a Roman-Style eclecticism that draws freely on all artistic forms and traditions, Piranesi's Observations anticipates the contemporary debate between devotees of a rational, minimal architecture and advocates of an architecture rich in ornament and historical references."--BOOK JACKET.