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Power and Virtue: Architecture and Intellectual Change in England 16601730 [Pehme köide]

(Chinese University of Hong Kong)
  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 256 pages, kõrgus x laius: 234x156 mm, kaal: 430 g, 52 Halftones, black and white; 52 Illustrations, black and white
  • Sari: The Classical Tradition in Architecture
  • Ilmumisaeg: 24-Nov-2006
  • Kirjastus: Routledge
  • ISBN-10: 0415374278
  • ISBN-13: 9780415374279
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Power and Virtue: Architecture and Intellectual Change in England 16601730Suurem pilt
  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 256 pages, kõrgus x laius: 234x156 mm, kaal: 430 g, 52 Halftones, black and white; 52 Illustrations, black and white
  • Sari: The Classical Tradition in Architecture
  • Ilmumisaeg: 24-Nov-2006
  • Kirjastus: Routledge
  • ISBN-10: 0415374278
  • ISBN-13: 9780415374279
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This is the first full-length study on the connections between English architecture and intellectual change between 1660 and 1730. As new ideas developed in post-Restoration England across the realms of politics, culture, academia and morality, so too did architectural expression of these ideas. Power and Virtue articulately engages English architecture with notions of power and virtue in terms of empirical knowledge on the one hand and humanism and virtuosi on the other.

Aimed at an academic readership in history and theory of architecture and the history of English architecture, this unique study will also interest those studying the ideas of material culture.



This is the first full-length study on the connections between English architecture and intellectual change between 1660 and 1730.
Illustration credits vii
Acknowledgements viii
Introduction 1
1 Experimental knowledge and the use of architecture 15
Knowledge for power
18
'Let use be preferred before uniformity'
31
Desiring to be modern
45
2 The political use of architecture: magnificence, divine mysteries and delight 55
Magnificence: Wren and the English court
60
Divine mysteries set in brick and stone
66
Architectural delight and strangeness in the proportion
75
3 The sense prior to other senses 83
Platonism in England
84
Virtue, moral sense and taste
99
Faith in an unsurpassable past
112
4 The virtuoso as the second maker 122
Shaftesbury's 'science of design'
123
Closterman, Matteis and Gribelin
133
Gardens and architecture
147
5 Reconstituting taste in architecture 157
The virtuosi
160
Defining taste through critique
173
Notes 193
Bibliography 230
Index 242


Li Shiqiao is Associate Professor in the Department of Architecture at the Chinese University of Hong Kong