New Classicism

New Classicism

Author: Elizabeth Meredith Dowling

Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13:

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For those interested in contemporary permutations of neo-classical architecture, this volume offers a photo essay of the work of 14 architectural firms. Among them are Robert Adam Architects Ltd, Norman Davenport Askins, John Blatteau Associates, Fairfax & Sammons, Robert A.M. Stern Architects, Michael G. Imber, and Porphyrios Associates. The build


New Classicists

New Classicists

Author: Dinyar S. Wadia

Publisher: Images Publishing

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 1864702338

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This latest volume in the "New Classicists" series offers an enticing glimpse of the exquisite work of Dinyar Wadia. While remaining loyal to traditional classical design, Wadia's finely detailed residences display a remarkable versatility and adaptability within the classical language of architecture. His work is characterised by a passion for excellent detailing, use of fine material and exceptional workmanship, always emphasizing the integral relationship between the home and its surrounding landscape. As revealed in the breathtaking array of homes featured in this volume, each residence is distinctive for its refined elegance and seamless incorporation into the landscape. It includes a foreword by HRH The Prince of Wales, and an introduction by Paul Gunther, President of The Institute of Classical Architecture and Classical America. Colour illustrations


Post-modernism

Post-modernism

Author: Charles Jencks

Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13:

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Describes the return to a new classical style within art and architecture. Includes 350 illustrations of paintings, sculpture, and architecture.


The Classical Revolution

The Classical Revolution

Author: John Borstlap

Publisher: Courier Dover Publications

Published: 2017-06-15

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 0486823350

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Essays by a prominent contemporary composer explore a current trend in classical music away from atonal characteristics and toward more traditional forms. Topics include cultural identity, musical meaning, and the aesthetics of beauty.


Antiquity

Antiquity

Author: Christopher Tadgell

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-10-08

Total Pages: 1257

ISBN-13: 1136802134

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The first in a new series of five books describing and illustrating the seminal architectural traditions of the world, Antiquity traces architectural history from its very beginnings until the time when the traditions that shape today’s environments began to flourish. More than a catalogue of buildings, in this work Tadgell provides their political, technological, social and cultural contexts and explores architecture, not only as the development of form and space but as an expression of the civilization within which it evolves. The buildings are analyzed and illustrated with over 1200 colour photographs and 400 drawings while the societies that produced them are brought to life through a broad selection of their artefacts.


Nationalism and Classicism

Nationalism and Classicism

Author: A. Leoussi

Publisher: Springer

Published: 1998-07-08

Total Pages: 297

ISBN-13: 0230372686

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This is a comparative study of the national significance of the classical revival which marked English and French art during the second half of the nineteenth century. It argues that the main focus of artists' interest in classical Greece, was the body of the Greek athlete. It explains this interest, first, by artists' contact with the art of Pheidias and Polycletus which portrayed it; and second, by the claim, made by physical anthropologists, that the classical body typified the race of the European nations.


Nordic Classicism

Nordic Classicism

Author: John Stewart

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2018-09-06

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 1350044199

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Nordic Classicism presents the first English-language survey of an important yet short-lived movement in modern architectural history. It was through the Nordic classical movement that Scandinavian architecture first attracted international attention. It was the Nordic Pavilions, rather than Le Corbusier's modernism, which generated most admiration at the 1925 World Fair, and it was the Nordic classical architects – including Gunnar Asplund, Sigurd Lewerentz, and Alvar Aalto – who went on to establish Scandinavia's reputation for modern design. Yet this brief classsical movement was quickly eclipsed by the rise of international modernism, and has often been overlooked in architectural studies. The book explores the lives and works of various key contributors to Nordic classicism – with eleven chapters each focussing on a different architect and on one of the period's outstanding works (including the Stockholm Central Library, the Resurrection Chapel, and the Woodland Cemetery). Famous architects and their works are examined alongside many lesser-known examples, to provide a comprehensive and in-depth account. As we approach the centenary of many of the events to which the book refers, now is a timely opportunity to explore the key themes of the Nordic classical movement, its architects, their buildings and the social and cultural changes to which they were responding.


The Classical Tradition

The Classical Tradition

Author: Anthony Grafton

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2010-10-25

Total Pages: 1188

ISBN-13: 9780674035720

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The legacy of ancient Greece and Rome has been imitated, resisted, misunderstood, and reworked by every culture that followed. In this volume, some five hundred articles by a wide range of scholars investigate the afterlife of this rich heritage in the fields of literature, philosophy, art, architecture, history, politics, religion, and science.