The Routledge handbook on the reception of classical architecture / edited by Nicholas Temple, Andrzej Piotrowski and Juan Manuel Heredia.
"This is the first book to examine the reception of the classical tradition in architecture in different regions of the world. Exploring the impact of colonialism, the authors show how classical principles were disseminated across the globe, highlighting both similarities and differences. By id...
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Table of Contents:
- 1 Introduction: A 'world' reception of classical architecture / Nicholas Temple, Andrzej Piotrowski and Juan Manuel Heredia
- PART I Transmission and re-conceptualisation of classical architecture
- 2 The fates of fornix / Juan Manuel Heredia
- 3 Architects, architecture and the city: Some themes on the continuity of classical ideas relating to the Latin Middle Ages / Christian Frost
- 4 Rethinking ornament in classical architecture: Spolia and architecture as institutio / Clare E.L. Guest
- 5 The persistence of the natura naturans from classical architecture / John Hendrix
- 6 On moderation: The ancient virtue and its reception in architectural theory / Esra Şahin Burat
- 7 Classical columns, mannerism and pagan antiquity / Andrzej Piotrowski
- 8 Neoclassical taste and antiquarian scholarship: The Royal Academy of the Three Noble Arts of San Carlos of Mexico, Alexander von Humboldt and Pedro José Márquez / Oscar H. Flores Flores
- 9 Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century classicism in England: John Soane's language and imagination / Yue Zhuang
- PART II Classical influences through colonialism, political ideology and religious conversion
- 10 Honour and the classical tradition in architecture: The matter of slavery / Charles Burroughs
- 11 Dismemberment of the orders and their reassembly across Portuguese overseas settlements / Pedro Guedes
- 12 The reception and involution of classical architecture by Jesuit missions in China (1583-1759) / Xiao Jing
- 13 The gods that came from the sea: The classical tradition in New Spain / Santiago de Orduña
- 14 Indo-Portuguese architecture in Kerala during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / Helder Carita
- 15 Neo-classical architecture in the Straits Settlements: Singapore's civic square (1819-1936) / Raymond Quek
- 16 Herbert Baker, New Delhi and the reception of the classical tradition / Soumyen Bandyopadhyay and Sagar Chauhan
- PART III Historiographical surveys of geographical regions
- 17 Scotland's enduring eclectic classicism / Ian Campbell
- 18 From J.B. Fischer von Erlach to Adolf Loos: The classical in Austria / Ross Jenner
- 19 Avatars of the classical tradition in Romanian architecture / Ana Maria Zahariade and Horia Moldovan
- 20 China: Sixteenth to eighteenth centuries: Renaissance humanism and Chinese architecture / Hui Zou
- 21 Revising the classical in Australian architecture: Colonial New South Wales and Victoria / Peter Kohane and Mark Stiles
- 22 "A pretty true reflection of our civilisation": Classical architecture in nineteenth-century New Zealand / Robin Skinner
- 23 Nordic visions of a classical world (1901-66) / Harry Charrington
- PART IV Visual and textual discourses
- 24 (Re)invoking humanism in modernity: Architecture and spectacle in Fascist Italy / Nicholas Temple and Eleni Tracada
- 25 Unclassical forms of late Roman architecture and the Roman Baroque: Francesco Borromini and the new classical tradition / Giuseppe Bonaccorso
- 26 Power, patronage and politics: Giovanni Niccolò Servandoni and the reception of neo-classicism in France / Louise Pelletier
- 27 The reception of European Renaissance urban theory in New Spain / Juan Luis Burke
- 28 Thomas Jefferson: The American landscape and architecture / Carroll William Westfall
- 29 The revival of classical architecture in Athens (1830-1840): Educational institutions designed by Christian Hansen and Stamatios Kleanthis / Nikolaos Karydis
- 30 Modernism and classicism in Brazil: Foundational myths and other stories / Daniela Sandler
- 31 Greek temple design and the Kathedrale des erotischen Elends / Matthew Mindrup
- 32 The underbelly of the architect: Reproducing classical idioms of power and culture in Rome / Renée Tobe and Tracey Eve Winton.