The future of the past : a conservation ethic for architecture, urbanism, and historic preservation /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Semes, Steven W.
Corporate Author: Institute of Classical Architecture and Classical America
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2009.
Edition:1st edition
Subjects:
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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. New and old architecture together
  • 2. The principles of traditional architecture
  • 3. How traditional architecture works
  • 4. The modernist paradigm
  • 5. A brief history of preservation philosophy
  • 6. Historicism and the search for an architecture of our time
  • 7. Preservation after historicism
  • 8. Literal replication
  • 9. Invention within a style
  • 10. Abstract reference
  • 11. Intentional opposition
  • 12. A conservation ethic
  • Bibliography
  • Index.