Radical Classicism
Author | : David Watkin |
Publisher | : Rizzoli International Publications |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2006 |
ISBN-10 | : UOM:39015063329976 |
ISBN-13 | : |
Rating | : 4/5 (76 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: "Quinlan Terry is at home in every traditional style, from Classical Greek to Roman, Gothic to Renaissance, and Baroque to Neoclassical. And yet, though linked with a long tradition, his work is, for its innovation and invention, inescapably modern. In contradistinction to the "signature buildings" by which leading Modernist architects come to be known - buildings frequently to be marked for their structural weaknesses and impractibility, for their immediate glamour and subsequent physical deterioration - Terry's work stands as an elegant and powerful argument for an architecutre built to last centuries."--BOOK JACKET.