Architecture and the Historical Imagination

Download or read book Architecture and the Historical Imagination written by Martin Bressani and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The importance of Eugene-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc (1814-1879) within modern architecture cannot be overstated. Key theoretician of modernism, renowned restoration architect, medieval archaeologist and champion of Gothic revivalism, he also published some of the most influential texts in the history of modern architecture. Martin Bressani expertly traces Viollet-le-Duc s complex intellectual development, showing how restoration, in all its layered meaning, shaped his outlook. Through his life journey, we follow the route by which the technological subject was born out of nineteenth-century historicism."