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Modernity: Enlightenment and Its Unintended Consequences
Modernity Enlightenment and Its Unintended Consequences Author:Christopher Tadgell The Enlightenment, the mid-17th-century intellectual revolution that put reason rather than belief at the centre of thought and encouraged the radical questioning of traditional hierarchies, led ultimately to the French Revolution and what is reconizably the modern world. Beginning with a definition of the movement, an introductory survey covers... more » the political, cultural and intellectual background to the movement. The first main section looks at so-called Neoclassicism - developed by masters such as Sir John Soane in England and Karl Friedrich Schinkel in Berlin, and by French and American architects who saw the style as an expression of republicanism - in reaction against the ornamentation of the Rococo style. This is set against a background of a definition of Eclecticism in the late 18th century and the development of Romanticism. After looking at Eclecticism, the books turns to Historicism and surveys the major revivalist styles of the 19th century. This is complemented by a section on engineering and industrial architecture and succeeded by a consideration of the Design Reform movement. Following this, the book covers the Modern Movement and goes on to trace the emergence from it and in reaction to it of Brutalism. A brief epilogue defines the major alternative design concerns in the last quarter of the 20th century.« less