The Routledge handbook on the reception of classical architecture
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London Metropolitan University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 49.32
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- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Routledge
- ISBN
- 9781138047112
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- Year of publication
- 2019
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Research group(s)
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4 - The Centre for Urban and Built Ecologies (CUBE)
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- Additional information
- The Routledge Handbook on the Reception of Classical Architecture (edited by Nicholas Temple, Andrzej Piotrowski and Juan Heredia) is the first comprehensive study of the reception of classical architecture in different regions of the world. Exploring the impact of colonialism, trade, slavery, religious missions, political ideology and intellectual/artistic exchange, the authors demonstrate how classical principles and ideas were disseminated and received across the globe. Featuring thirty-two chapters written by scholars from China, Europe, Turkey, North America, Mexico, Australia and New Zealand, the book comprises four sections: 1) Transmission and re-conceptualisation of classical architecture; 2) Classical influence through colonialism, political ideology and religious conversion; 3) Historiographical surveys of geographical regions; and 4) Visual and textual discourses. Essays cover a wide geography and include studies in Italy, France, England, Scotland, the Nordic countries, Greece, Austria, Portugal, Romania, Germany, Poland, India, Singapore, China, the USA, Mexico, Brazil, New Zealand and Australia. Other essays focus on thematic issues relating to classical architecture on ornament, spolia, humanism, nature, moderation, decorum, heresy and taste. As co-editor of the publication, I conceived and coordinated the project, from initial proposal stage to final submission of the manuscript. All papers were peer-viewed at different stages (initial outline, first draft, 2nd draft and final amendments) by at least two of the editors, including my co-authored chapter with Eleni Tracada, ‘Re-invoking Humanism in Modernity: Architecture and Spectacle in Fascist Italy’. This 10,000-word chapter examines relationships between Renaissance humanism and architectural developments in Fascist Italy. Examining the writings of philosophers and historians of the period and the projects of leading Italian architects, the chapter argues that important correlations can be identified between modern interpretations of Renaissance humanism and Fascist architecture and spectacle. The chapter deepens understanding of these relationships by drawing upon the arguments of Tim Benton, Kurt Forster and others.
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