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The "tyranny of the private realm" is destroying our cities. Modern architecture, with its insistence on the mute object and its rejection of the conventions of street and square, has abdicated civic responsibility and eschewed the urban forms that express and promote it. In this eloquent and extensively illustrated study of the evolution of a modern conception of space, Michael Dennis explores the social, psychological, and especially the formal transformations that that led architects to trade the city of public space for a city of private icons. The French <i>hôtel,</i> an aristocratic town house developed largely in Paris between 1550 and 1800, is a sophisticated instrument of urbanism that both chronicles the demise of the public realm and offers architectural techniques for reconstructing a spatially rich city. In its development from Italianate prototypes to an urban courtyard building and finally to a freestanding pavilion in a private garden, the French <i>hôtel</i> illustrates the transformation of the city from one of platonic voids to one of platonic solids, from one of buildings that define space to one of buildings that treat space as merely left over. <p>In reconstru

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Author

Dennis, Michael

Publisher

Ill. : The Graham Foundation for advanced studies in the Fine Arts ; Mass. ; The MIT [Massachussets Institute of technology] Press

Published

1986

Language

EN

ISBN

9780262040822

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Architecture, Art, Philosophy