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Rural and urban : architecture between two cultures /

Contains essays that investigate how the cultures of the town and the countryside interact in architecture.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Ballantyne, Andrew
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2010.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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 Aufklrung: 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 BelgiumChapter 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 infl.