Throughout history and around the world, people have interacted with works of art as if they were living beings rather than static objects. ...
Continue Reading →Although it is often assumed that British writing on architectural theory really started in the 18th century, there is in fact a large ...
Continue Reading →In this book, Caroline van Eck examines how rhetoric and the arts interacted in early modern Europe. She argues that rhetoric, though originally ...
Continue Reading →Few cities have a greater concentration of significant architecture than Oxford, England. Within a city of only 130,000 inhabitants there are important buildings, ...
Continue Reading →Architecture, at least since the beginning of the twentieth century, has suspended historical references in favor of universalized abstraction. In the decades after ...
Continue Reading →Inigo Jones, the first English classical architect, was famous in his own time and was the posthumous sponsor of the Palladian movement of ...
Continue Reading →As private secretary to the Emperor Hadrian, the scholar Suetonius had access to the imperial archives and used them (along with eyewitness accounts) ...
Continue Reading →The Edifice Complex explores the intimate and inextricable relationship between power, money and architecture in the twentieth century. How and why have presidents, ...
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