The First Moderns: The Architects of the Eighteenth Century

by Joseph Rykwert

Book Overview

The First Moderns portrays the complex of social and personal relationships, patronage, humanistic learning, and mystical and hermetic philosophy that made up the world of the "classic" in Europe from around 1650 to 1775. Against this background, it traces a subtle but revolutionary change that occurred in European architecture and which aroused issues that still echo in the debates between architectural traditionalists and modernists and between...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262680394
• ISBN13: 9780262680394
• Release Date: January 1983
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 585 Pages
• Weight: 2.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.9" x 10.0"