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The First Moderns : The Architects of the Eighteenth Century
The First Moderns The Architects of the Eighteenth Century Author:Joseph Rykwert The focus of this brilliant tour de force is the international intellectual discourse that began in the French academy between Blondel and Perrault and which Rykwert believes posed the first essential problems of modernism. His history covers the work and thought of Inigo Jones, Wren, Hawksmoor, Burlington, Kent, Hogarth, Piranesi, Lodoli, Winke... more »lmann, and J. B. Fischer von Erlach.« less