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Semes, Steven W.

The future of the past : a conservation ethic for architecture, urbanism, and historic preservation / Conservation ethic for architecture, urbanism, and historic preservation Steven W. Semes ; in association with the Institute of Classical Architecture and Classical America. - First edition. - New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2009. - 272 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Acknowledgments -- 1. New and old architecture together -- 2. The principles of traditional architecture -- 3. How traditional architecture works -- 4. The modernist paradigm -- 5. A brief history of preservation philosophy -- 6. Historicism and the search for an architecture of our time -- 7. Preservation after historicism -- 8. Literal replication -- 9. Invention within a style -- 10. Abstract reference -- 11. Intentional opposition -- 12. A conservation ethic -- Bibliography -- Index.

ISBN: 9780393732443 (hardcover) 0393732444 (hardcover)

LCCN: 2009017360

LC Class. No.: NA2543.H55 / S43 2009

Dewey Class. No.: 720.103