Symbolic Space: French Enlightenment Architecture and Its Legacy
By Richard A. Etlin.
Description
Richard A. Etlin explores the social and cultural hierarchies established in eighteenth-century France to illustrate how the conceptual basis of the modern house and the physical layout of the modern city emerged from debates among theoretically innovative French architects of the eighteenth-century. Examining a broad range of topics from architecture and urbanism to gardening and funerary monuments, he shows how the work of these architects was informed by considerations of symbolic space.For Etlin, the eighteenth-century city was a place in which actual physical space was subjected to a c...
ISBN(s)
0226220850, 9780226220857
