Format:
1 online resource (231 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780203865477
Content:
Investigating various ways in which the cultures of the town and the countryside interact in architecture, original essays in this book written by an international range of recognized theorists will help all students of architecture and urban design understand how the urban and rural relate. Taking a broad historical sweep, this collection draws on a symposium of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain
Note:
Book Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Illustration credits -- Contributors -- Preface -- Chapter 1 Rural and urban milieux -- Chapter 2 Villeggiatura in the urban context of Renaissance Rome: Paul III Farnese's villa- tower on the Campidoglio -- Chapter 3 Rural urbanism: London's West End -- Chapter 4 Anti-urban utopia in the Aufklärung: The ideological background of Friedrich Wilhelm von Erdmannsdorff's architecture -- Chapter 5 Urban meets rural: A study of three eighteenth-century retreats on the Isle of Wight -- Chapter 6 The picturesque bourgeois house at the edge of the neoclassical city -- Chapter 7 'Such a magnificent farmstead in my opinion asks for a muddy pool': Rural buildings and the search for a 'regional' architecture in Belgium -- Chapter 8 Nature and the city in 1920s America: Sunnyside Gardens, Queens, New York -- Chapter 9 Rurality as a locus of modernity: Romanian inter- war architecture -- Chapter 10 Is the kibbutz a 'radiant village'?: Le Corbusier and the Zionist movement -- Chapter 11 An unlikely influence: Le Corbusier and the Garden City movement -- Chapter 12 From the 'model village' to a satellite town: Reading change in Temelli through the transformation of its residential landscape -- Index
Additional Edition:
Print version Ballantyne, Andrew Rural and Urban: Architecture Between Two Cultures London : Taylor & Francis Group,c2009 ISBN 9780415552127
Language:
English
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