The future of the past : a conservation ethic for architecture, urbanism, and historic preservation / Steven W. Semes ; in association with the Institute of Classical Architecture and Classical America.

By:

Semes, Steven W

Contributor(s):

Institute of Classical Architecture and Classical America

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2009.Edition: First editionDescription: 272 pages : illustrations ; 29 cmISBN:

9780393732443 (hardcover)
0393732444 (hardcover)

Other title:

Conservation ethic for architecture, urbanism, and historic preservation

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

720.103 22

LOC classification:

NA2543.H55 S43 2009

Contents:

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.

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Item type	Current library	Home library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Book	Ayesha Abed Library General Stacks	Ayesha Abed Library General Stacks	720.103 SEM (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		3010032372