: le prime edizioni italiane (fine anni ‘90) non includono l’architettura contemporanea più recente. Assicurati di cercare l’ultima edizione (IV o V) se vuoi capitoli su Norman Foster, Zaha Hadid o Rem Koolhaas.
To understand the book, one must first understand the author. David Watkin was a British architectural historian whose career was defined by a willingness to challenge the status quo. A Fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge, Watkin was not merely a chronicler of dates and styles; he was a polemicist who argued passionately for the continuity of tradition. : le prime edizioni italiane (fine anni ‘90)
: Watkin, a specialist in Neoclassical architecture, provides particularly rich insight into the 18th and 19th centuries. David Watkin was a British architectural historian whose
Perhaps the most controversial—and therefore the most compelling—sections of the book deal with the 19th and 20th centuries. Watkin famously co-authored Morality and Architecture , challenging the moralistic arguments often used to justify Modernism. In Storia dell'architettura occidentale , he extends this critique. he extends this critique.