Item Number: 135058 Title: The Baroque in Architectural Culture, 1880-1980 Author: Leach, Andrew ; Maarten Delbeke (eds) Price: Not Available ISBN: 9781472459916 Description: Farnham: Ashgate, 2015. 25cm., hardcover, 279pp. illus. Contents: Defining a problem: modern architecture and the baroque, Maarten Delbeke, Andrew Leach and John Macarthur; Engaging the past: Albert Ilg’s Die Zukunft des Barockstils, Francesca Torello; Größstadt as Barockstadt: art history, advertising and the surface of the neo-baroque, Albert Narath; The ‘restless allure’ of (architectural) form: space and perception between Germany, Russia and the Soviet Union, Luka Skansi; Geoffrey Scott, the baroque and the picturesque, John Macarthur; Against formalism: aspects of the historiography of the baroque in Weimar Germany, 1918-33, Ute Engel; Riegl and Wölfflin in dialogue on the baroque, Evonne Levy; Beyond the Vienna School: Sedlmayr and Borromini, Marco Pogacnik; Pevsner’s Kunstgeographie: from Leipzig’s baroque to the Englishness of modern English architecture, Mathew Aitchison; The future of the baroque, c. 1945, Andrew Leach; Giedion as guide: Space, Time and Architecture and the modernist reception of baroque Rome, Denise R. Costanzo; Reading Aalto through the baroque: constituent facts, dynamic pluralities, and formal latencies, Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen; Taking the sting out of the baroque: Wittkower, 1958, Andrew Hopkins; Pierre Charpentrat and baroque functionalism, Maarten Delbeke; From spatial feeling to functionalist design: contrasting representations of the baroque in Steen Eiler Rasmussen’s Experiencing Architecture, Anthony Raynsford; From Michelangelo to Borromini: Bruno Zevi and operative criticism, Roberto Dulio; Between history and design: the baroque legacy in the work of Paolo Portoghesi, Silvia Micheli; Steinberg’s complexity, Michael Hill; The ‘recurrence’ of the baroque in architecture: Giedion and Norberg-Schulz’s approaches to constancy and change, Gro Lauvland; The future of the baroque, c. 1980, Maarten Delbeke and Andrew Leach.
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