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Architecture in Context: Boxset

Architecture in Context: Boxset

by Christopher Tadgell (Author)

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    Paperback 2017

    $388.47
Synopsis

Architecture in Context is a series of seven books describing and illustrating all the seminal traditions of architecture from the earliest settlements in the Euphrates and Jordan valleys to the stylistically and technologically sophisticated buildings of the second half of the twentieth century. It brings together the fruits of the author's lifetime of teaching and travelling the world, seeing and photographing buildings in an extraordinary synthesis. Each stand-alone volume sets the buildings described and illustrated within their political, technological, social and cultural contexts, exploring architecture not only as the development of form but as an expression of the civilization within which it evolved.

The series focuses on the story of the Classical tradition from its origins in Mesopotamia and Egypt, through its realization in ancient Greece and Rome, to the Renaissance, Neo-Classicism, Eclecticism and Modernism. This thread is supplemented with detailed excursions to cover the development of architecture in Central America, India, South-East Asia, and the Islamic world.

For students of architecture and art history, for travellers, and for readers who want to understand the genesis of the buildings they see around them, each volume provides a complete, readable and superbly illustrated reference.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 6228
 Edition: 1
 Publisher: Routledge
Published: 31 Jul 2017
ISBN 10: 1138086231
ISBN 13: 9781138086234

Media Reviews

This amazing publishing achievement outfaces even Sir Banister Fletcher's A History of Architecture (now in its 21st edition) that is so well-known to generations of architectural students. Christopher Tadgell's scholarly tour de force covers the same ground, in more detail, single-handedly, and is moreover profusely illustrated with his own colour photographs, which are of professional quality. His architectural survey spans the whole of world history, from Antiquity to the present day.

...For those who dislike flying, leafing through the illustrations provides an alternative world tour, with the author's clear, scholarly accompaniment making him the best of Ciceronis. The text, in its range, clarity, depth of research, scope and insight, is a suitable match for the glorious illustrations.

...This massive publishing achievement is in the tradition of the great Anglo-German encyclopaedic works of the 19th century.

...The fruits fill these seven fat volumes. Not everybody will be able to house the full series, but each volume provides a readable and superbly illustrated coverage of its subject... John Martin Robinson, Country Life, May 9, 2018

Author Bio
Christopher Tadgell taught architectural history for almost thirty years before devoting himself full-time to writing and research, travelling the world to see and photograph buildings from every tradition and period. Born in Sydney, he studied art history at the Courtauld Institute in London. In 1974 he was awarded his PhD for a thesis on the Neoclassical architectural theorist, Ange-Jacques Gabriel. He subsequently taught in London and at the Kent Institute of Art and Design in Canterbury, with interludes as F.L. Morgan Professor of Architectural Design at the University of Louisville and as a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. He has lectured at academic institutions around the world, including the universities of Princeton, Harvard, Columbia and Cornell, the Graham Foundation in Chicago, and Cambridge University and the Courtauld Institute in the UK. He is a Trustee of the World Monuments Fund, a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and a member of both the British and American Societies of Architectural Historians. His The History of Architecture in India (1990, several reprints, Phaidon) is the definitive one-volume account of the architecture of the subcontinent, while many publications on French architecture include the standard account in Baroque and Rococo Architecture and Decoration (ed. Blunt, 1978, Elek). He has contributed many articles on Indian and French architecture to The Grove Dictionary of Art and other major reference books.