The Architecture of the École des beaux-arts /

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Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Museum of Modern Art ; Cambridge, Mass. : distributed by MIT Press, c1977.Description: 525 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

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volume

ISBN:

0870702440 :
0262040530

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LOC classification:

NA1047.5.E34 A69
NA1047.5E34 A69

Summary: Here, for the first time in this century, is an opportunity to re-examine the philosophy of the Beaux-Arts school of architecture, whose two-hundred-year history collimated in the body of ideas and buildings against which the modern movement rebelled. Based on the Doctrines of architecture formulated by the French Academy during the eighteenth century the Ecole des Beaux-Arts system of instruction stressed drawing as the primary means of visualizing architectural form [cont...]

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Reference	Carleton University, AVRC	Richardson Collection - Non CIrculating - Call No. Accompanied by Red Dot	Open-stacks	NA1047.5.E34 A69 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Not for loan		16055001130

Based on an exhibition shown at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Oct. 29, 1975-Jan. 4, 1976.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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