Court & Garden: From the French Hotel to the City of Modern Architecture

Name/Title

Court & Garden: From the French Hotel to the City of Modern Architecture

Entry/Object ID

2015.002.084

Secondary Title

Court and Garden

Description

Explores the social, psychological, and formal transformations that led architects to trade the city of public space for a city of private icons. Contents: Introduction -- Public versus private -- The prototypes -- Public spaces: the Baroque Hotel -- Display and retreat: The Rococo Hotel -- Private icons: The Neoclassical Hotel -- Le Corbusier and the City of Modern Architecture -- Architecture and the cumulative city -- Excursus Americanus 285 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.

Collection

Historic Charleston Foundation Library

Acquisition

Accession

2015.002

Source or Donor

New Library Catalog Records (2015)

Acquisition Method

Found in Collection

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Book

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Other Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials

Plazas, Palaces

Search Terms

Fine arts, Architecture, Domestic Architecture, Houses, Dwellings, Architecture and society, Architecture--Philosophy, Space (Architecture), Personal space

Book Details

Author

Dennis, Michael

Series

Graham Foundation Architecture Series

Publisher

MIT Press

Place Published

Location

Cambridge, MA

Date Published

circa 1986

Call No.

NA2543 .S6 D39 1986

ISBN

0262040824

LCCN

85007906

Notes

Copy No.: 2

Location

Location

Building

Missroon Library

Category

Permanent

Date

February 7, 2023

General Notes

Note

Notes: By Michael Dennis. Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-274) and index.

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Create Date

December 7, 2015

Updated By

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Update Date

February 16, 2023