Housing the new Romans : architectural reception and classical style in the modern world

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The work Housing the new Romans : architectural reception and classical style in the modern world represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Bates College. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Housing the new Romans : architectural reception and classical style in the modern world

Title remainder

architectural reception and classical style in the modern world

Statement of responsibility

edited by Katharine T. von Stackelberg and Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis

Title variation

Architectural reception and classical style in the modern world

Contributor

• Macaulay-Lewis, Elizabeth
• Stackelberg, Katharine T. von

Subject

• Architecture, Ancient -- Influence
• Architecture, Classical -- Influence
• Architecture, Domestic
• Neoclassicism (Architecture)

Language

eng

Summary

"In the last twenty years, reception studies have significantly enhanced our understanding of the ways in which Classics has shaped modern Western culture, but very little attention has been directed toward the reception of classical architecture. Housing the New Romans: Architectual Reception and Classical Style in the Modern World addresses this gap by investigating ways in which appropriation and allusion facilitated the reception of Classical Greece and Rome through the requisition and redeployment of classicizing tropes to create neo-Antique sites of "dwelling" in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The volume, across nine essays, will cover both European and American iterations of place making, including Sir John Soanes' house in London, the Hôtel de Beauharnais in Paris, and the Getty Villa in California. By focusing on structures and places that are oriented towards private life-houses, hotels, clubs, tombs, and gardens-the volume directs the critical gaze towards diverse and complex sites of curatorial self-fashioning. The goal of the volume is to provide a multiplicity of interpretative frameworks (e.g. object-agency enchantment, hyperreality, memory-infrastructure) that may be applied to the study of architectural reception. This critical approach makes Housing the New Romans the first work of its kind in the emerging field of architectural and landscape reception studies and in the hitherto textually dominated field of classical reception." -- provided by the publisher

Cataloging source

BTCTA

Illustrations

• illustrations
• plates
• maps

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography