Quatremère De Quincy and the Invention of a Modern Language of Architecture by Sylvia Lavin
Quatremère De Quincy and the Invention of a Modern Language of Architecture

Sylvia Lavin

Quatremère De Quincy and the Invention of a Modern Language of Architecture

Sylvia Lavin

334 pages first pub 1992 (editions)

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In this important revisionist work, Sylvia Lavin uncovers the origins of one of thefundamental concepts of modern architectural theory, the idea that architecture is a form oflanguage. She demonstrates how, in some little-studied texts, the late E...

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