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Colquhoun, Alan, 1921-2012.

Modernity and the classical tradition : architectural essays, 1980-1987 / Alan Colquhoun.

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1989.

xi, 268 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm

A collection of essays in which Colquhoun (architecture, Princeton) examines some of the concepts classicism, romanticism, historicism, and rationalism that have prevailed in architectural discourse during the past two centuries and then looks at the role of history in relation to the classical avant-garde. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Port.

Architecture and history.

Neoclassicism (Architecture)

Functionalism (Architecture)

Architecture, Postmodern.

Includes bibliographical references.

I. Historicism and the burden of the classical -- Three kinds of historicism -- Vernacular classicism -- Composition versus the project -- Rationalism: a philosophical concept in architecture -- II. Traditions and displacements: three studies of Le Corbusier -- Architecture and engineering: Le Corbusier and the paradox of reason -- The strategies of the Grands Travaux -- The significance of Le Corbusier -- III. Pre-Texts -- A way of looking at the present situation -- Classicism and ideology -- Regionalism and technology -- "Newness" and "age value" in Alois Riegl -- Twentieth-century concepts of urban space -- Postmodern critical attitudes -- Postmodernism and structuralism: a retrospective glance.

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