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This text provides a critical history of Western architecture theory from the ancient world to the present day. It looks at how the architect generates architectural form in order to explain a number of issues, including the origins of style, the persistence of tradition and the role of genius.

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• 1 Introduction: The central problem of design theory
• Theories of form
• A paradox in western theories of design
• The subject-object problem
• 2 The Ancient World: The origins of design theory and education
• The Greek revolution in philosophy
• Greek Art and Architecture theory
• Vitruvius
• 3 The Middle Ages: Shift from the secular to the divine
• Medieval art and architecture theory
• Scholasticism
• Education in the guilds and universities
• 4 The Renaissance: The revival of ancient concepts
• Art theory in the High Renaissance
• The Mannerist extremes
• The new art academies
• The rise of Positivist science
• 5 The Baroque: The Baroque dualities
• Rationalism and the priority of reason
• Empiricism and the priority of sense
• Art and architecture theory and the academics
• 6 The Enlightenment: Revolutionary foundations of the modern world
• Positivism and the new deterministic sciences of man
• The Romantic rebellion
• Neo- Classicism and the academics
• Immanual Kant and the synthesis of subject and object
• 7 The Nineteenth century: Philosophical relativism and artistic eclecticism Classicism and The Ecole Des Beaux-Arts
• German idealism, romanticism, and the Gothic revival
• Positivism and artistic determinism
• The shift to abstraction in art
• 8 The Twentieth Century (I): The reaction to the relativism in philosophy
• The opposed sources of architectural form
• the opposed sources of artistic form
• The Bauhaus conflation
• The Modern Movement
• 9 Twentieth Century (II): Late Modernism
• Positivism and environmental design
• Structuralism
• Post-modernism and Post-structuralism
• List of illustrations
• Bibliography

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The title of this book serves as an excellent description of its theme: theories concerning the genesis of architectural form. In clear prose, Gelernter (Univ. of Colorado) surveys the history of various Western theories, from antiquity to the present, explaining the sources of form. This study is arranged chronologically in a manner that parallels the organization of most architectural history surveys, and this arrangement facilitates the use of the work as a supplemental text for history as well as theory courses. Readers will find the final chapter particularly valuable for its concise description of postmodern, structuralist, and poststructuralist theories of design. The black-and-white illustrations are well chosen to elucidate the text. The author's thematic focus on the origins of architectural form is both the strength and the weakness of this text. Readers looking for a more comprehensive treatment of design theory, including discussions of professional identity, social ends, and ethical concerns, should consult Paul-Alan Johnson's The Theory of Architecture: Concepts, Themes and Practices (1994). Footnotes; useful bibliography. Undergraduate; graduate; faculty.