Architecture, Print Culture and the Public Sphere in Eighteenth-Century France

by Richard Wittman

This book focuses on the complex ways in which architectural practice, theory, patronage, and experience became modern with the rise of a mass public and a reconfigured public sphere between the end of the seventeenth century and the French Revolution.

Presenting a fresh theoretical orientation and a large body of new primary research, this book offers a new cultural history of virtually all the major monuments of eighteenth-century Parisian...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415514657
• ISBN13: 9780415514651
• Release Date: December 2013
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.8"