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Author_Shiqiao Li
British material culture
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critique
empirical knowledge history
English architectural theory development
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Experimental
Gribelin
humanism in design
moral philosophy aesthetics
Restoration period architecture
strangeness
unsurpassable
virtuosi intellectual history
Product details
- ISBN 9780415374279
- Weight: 470g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 24 Nov 2006
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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This is the first full-length study on the connections between English architecture and intellectual change between 1660 and 1730. As new ideas developed in post-Restoration England across the realms of politics, culture, academia and morality, so too did architectural expression of these ideas. Power and Virtue articulately engages English architecture with notions of power and virtue in terms of empirical knowledge on the one hand and humanism and virtuosi on the other.
Aimed at an academic readership in history and theory of architecture and the history of English architecture, this unique study will also interest those studying the ideas of material culture.
Li Shiqiao is Associate Professor in the Department of Architecture at the Chinese University of Hong Kong
