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City and Country in Britain and Ireland
Published in Architecture Since 1400 (01-01-2014)“…By the middle of the seventeenth century, mercantile capitalism had unleashed major changes in the appearance of cities and buildings. From Amsterdam to Edo…”
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Northern Baroque
Published in Architecture Since 1400 (01-01-2014)“…Although the Renaissance had a limited impact on architecture in northern Europe, in the right circumstances the more flexible and theatrical baroque triumphed…”
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Medici Florence
Published in Architecture Since 1400 (01-01-2014)“…The ancient forms and construction techniques revived by Filippo Brunelleschi served the modern uses of fifteenth-century Florence, one of the most dynamic…”
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Spain and Portugal in the Americas
Published in Architecture Since 1400 (01-01-2014)“…Bernini’s piazza fronting Saint Peter’s is the most imposing of the European public spaces whose design may have been unconsciously inflected by an awareness…”
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Imposing Urban Order
Published in Architecture Since 1400 (01-01-2014)“…The modern movement failed to capture the full impact of modernity on architecture and urbanism in the first half of the twentieth century. Industrial and…”
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Court and Dwelling in East and Southeast Asia
Published in Architecture Since 1400 (01-01-2014)“…Colonization entails the imposition of a foreign power upon a landscape, a process that, although necessarily involving compromises, by definition places…”
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The Renaissance in Rome and the Veneto
Published in Architecture Since 1400 (01-01-2014)“…If Brunelleschi’s original goal was to solve technological problems, much of his genius lay in his invention of a new architectural vocabulary capable of…”
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From Postmodern to Neomodern: The United States and Europe
Published in Architecture Since 1400 (01-01-2014)“…Between 1965 and 1985, much of the European and American public turned away from modern architecture. Gradually, the architectural profession returned to the…”
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Paris in the Nineteenth Century
Published in Architecture since 1400 (01-01-2014)“…This chapter focuses on the nineteenth-century Paris created by Napoleon III, the nephew of the first, who came to power following the revolution in 1848 and…”
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Living on the North American Land
Published in Architecture Since 1400 (01-01-2014)“…The British sixteenth- and seventeenth-century recolonization of Ireland, parts of which the English had originally seized in the twelfth century, provided a…”
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Brunelleschi
Published in Architecture Since 1400 (01-01-2014)“…In 1418 the city of Florence in what is now Italy held an architectural competition. More than one hundred years after work had begun on Santa Maria del Fiore…”
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Empire Building
Published in Architecture since 1400 (01-01-2014)“…This chapter discusses how colonialism transformed the architecture of both colonizers and the colonized. Between 1800 and 1940 every country in Africa and…”
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Chicago from the Great Fire to the Great War
Published in Architecture since 1400 (01-01-2014)“…This chapter focuses on the architecture of Chicago in the nineteenth century. From little more than a village when it was founded in 1850, Chicago became one…”
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Baroque Rome
Published in Architecture Since 1400 (01-01-2014)“…From Beijing to Istanbul and from Florence to Tenochtitlán, most new and many existing forms of early modern architectural and urban order were inherently…”
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Africa: Villages and Cities
Published in Architecture Since 1400 (01-01-2014)“…Because extensive European acquaintance with the African interior dates only to the nineteenth century, it is often assumed that this is territory without a…”
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Postcolonial Modernism and Beyond
Published in Architecture since 1400 (01-01-2014)“…This chapter explores a prominent issue in international architectural culture during the last decades of the twentieth century, that of cultural identity. It…”
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Inventing the Avant-Garde
Published in Architecture since 1400 (01-01-2014)“…This chapter focuses on the invention of avant-garde architecture. The avant-garde emerged in mid-nineteenth-century Europe, particularly France, as artists,…”
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