European architecture : 1750 - 1890 /

Bergdoll, Barry,

European architecture : 1750 - 1890 / - vi, 326 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. - Oxford history of art .

Includes glossary.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Part I: Chapter 1Progress, Enlightenment, Experiment -- Neoclassicism: Science, Archaeology, and the Doctrine of Progress -- Chapter 2: What is Enlightenment? The City and the Public, 1750-89 -- Chapter 3: Experimental Architecture: Landscape Gardens and Reform Institutions -- Part II: Revolutions: Chapter 4: Revolutionary Architecture -- Part III: Nationalism, Historicism, Technology: Chapter 5: Nationalism and Stylistic Debates in Architecture -- Chapter 6: Historicism and New Building Types -- Chapter 7: New Technology and Architectural Form, 1851-90 -- Chapter 8: The City Transformed, 1848-90 -- Chapter 9: The Crisis of Historicism, 1870-93 -- Notes -- Timeline -- Glossary -- Further Reading -- Picture Credits -- Index.

9780192842220


Architecture--history--Europe--19th century.
Architecture--history--Europe--18th century.
Neoclassicism (Architecture)--Europe.

724.19 / BEE