This comprehensive examination of eighteenth and nineteenth-century architecture explores its extreme diversity within the context of tremendous social; economic and political upheaval. Never before had the functional requirements and expressive capacities of architecture been tested so thoroughly and with such diversity of invention. Bergdoll traces this experimentation in a broad range of contexts; focusing in particular on the relation of architectural design to new theories of history; new categories of scientific inquiry; and the broadening audience for architecture in this period of transformation. Unlike traditional surveys with long lists of buildings and architects; the themes are elucidated by in-depth coverage of key buildings which in turn are situated in both their local and European context.
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