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Search - European Architecture In The Twentieth Century - Volume One

European Architecture In The Twentieth Century Volume One
Author: Arnold Whittick

European Architecture IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY BY ARNOLD WHITTIGK Volume One PART I HISTORICAL BACKGROUND AND THE EARLY YEARS OF THE CENTURY PART II TRANSITION FROM WAR TO PEACE 1919-24 PUBLISHED BY ARRANGEMENT WITH THE INCORPORATED ASSOCIATION OF ARCHITECTS SURVEYORS LONDON CROSBT LOCKWOOD SON, LTD. 39 THURLOE STREET, S. W. y 1950 COPYRIGHT I95... more »O BY CROSBY LOCKWOOD SON, LTD. PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN THE CITY HALL OF STOCKHOLM COMPLETED 1923, ARCHITECT RAGNAR OSTBERG TO MY WIFE PREFACE THIS history is designed to cover the first half of the twentieth century. It is divided into five parts which are to be presented in three volumes. The first volume contains the first and second parts and takes the narrative to the year 1924. The second volume will contain the third part, covering the period from 1924 to 1933, while the third volume will contain the fourth and fifth parts covering the periods from 1933 to 1940 and from 1945 to 1950. In part one it is my purpose to give a general idea of the architectural background at the beginning of the century and to review the principal developments before the First World War. I have not felt it necessary to go back in any detail farther than the late Renaissance, because architectural history before that time has been variously systematized and is available in numerous text-books. Thus I begin broadly with the main European developments since the late eighteenth century, giving a little closer attention to the architectural movements of the second half of the nineteenth century and early twentieth century, allowing the treatment to become gradually more detailed as the year 1914 is approached. The division into the periods indicated seem to be those which are most logically suggested by the course of European history. I have generally considered buildings in chronological order, beinggoverned rather by the date that a building was designed or begun than by the date it was completed, unless the modifications in the original design were such as to assign it more fittingly to a later date because a history of architecture is very much an account of the evolution of architectural thought. One of the results of this method is that sometimes, although not often, a building is given a much earlier place in the historical sequence than the date of its completion would suggest. To assist clarity and to avoid as much as possible uncertainties of meaning, it is, I think, desirable to give some indication of the sense in which the term architecture is employed in this work. The term architect derives from the Greek apxiTexrcw, a compound of a t-meaning chief 3 or master and TKTCW meaning carpenter, craftsman 3 , or builder. According, then, to its original definition, architecture is the work of the architect or master builder. In modern aesthetic philosophy, however, architecture has been given a more exclusive meaning. It is here classified with painting, sculpture, music, and poetry as one of the fine arts and is regarded as building which viii PREFACE has some degree of beauty, or, in other words, building that has aesthetic interest. It is primarily with architecture in this latter sense that this book is concerned. I think the term building adequately denotes the activities of the archi tect or master-builder in its original meaning. If there were no such term to comprehend the craft or science of building, then there would be little justification in using the term architecture in the restricted aesthetic sense, but building serves the wider sense very well. In dealing with architecture, however, I have endeavoured to compre hend everything in building that may help to determine aesthetic character, and I have thus considered as fully as possible the social and scientific aspects of building...

ISBN-13: 9781406704075
ISBN-10: 1406704075
Publication Date: 3/15/2007
Pages: 340
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Publisher: Loney Press
Book Type: Paperback
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