Volume 39, Number 19 · November 19, 1992
Pale Fire
By Witold Rybczynski
Disfiguring: Art, Architecture, Religion
by Mark C. Taylor
University of Chicago Press, 346 pp., $45.00
Writing about the art of building has a long tradition. Inspired by the ancient Roman architect and engineer Vitruvius, who wrote On Architecture, the oldest surviving dissertation on classical architectural theory, Renaissance architects like Alberti, Vignola, and Palladio all produced theoretical treatises. So did Jacques-François Blondel in the eighteenth century. The practice continued in the twentieth century with Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier and Walter Gropius, and recently Robert Venturi and Aldo Rossi.
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