Court and Garden: From the French Hotel to the City of Modern Architecture
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Court & Garden explores the social, psychological, and especially the formal transformations that led architects to trade the city of public space for the city of private icons. This detailed history of the French hotel- an aristocratic town house developed largely in Paris between 1550 and 1800 - reveals the hotel to be a sophisticated instrument of urbanism that both chronicles the demise of the public realm and offers architectural techniques for reconstructing a spatially rich city. Michael Dennis is a practicing architect. He has taught and lectured widely, and was the 1986 Thomas Jefferson Professor of Architecture at the University of Virginia. A Graham Foundation Book.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0262540517
ISBN13:9780262540513
Release Date:January 1988
Publisher:MIT Press (MA)
Length:285 Pages
Weight:2.60 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 10.4" x 10.6"
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