{"product_id":"the-dilemma-of-style-architectural-ideas-from-the-picturesque-to-the-post-modern","title":"The Dilemma of Style: Architectural Ideas from the Picturesque to the Post Modern","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBook info:\u003c\/strong\u003e The Dilemma of Style: Architectural Ideas from the Picturesque to the Post Modern (Hardcover, 348 pages) – University of Chicago Press, 1987. Language: English.\u003c\/p\u003e\n Is architecture in a state of crisis? Or are the critics simply in a state of confusion? Either way, the problems of architecture today are rooted in the history of architectural ideas. Those ideas€”from the Picturesque to the Modern Movement; from the Neo-Classicism and the Gothic Revival to New Brutalism and Post-Modernism€”form the basis of this original and highly readable book. Ranging widely over English architecture during the last two hundred years€”Georgian, Victorian, Edwardian, Modern€”The Dilemma of Style explores the way in which generations of architects and theorists have searched for a key to the conundrum of style. Richly illustrated and densely argued, with scores of quotations and hundreds of references, this is not another history of English architecture: it is almost an encyclopaedia of architectural ideas.This challenging book confronts one of the central problems of architectural theory: the nature€”and necessity€”of st  ","brand":"J. Mordaunt Crook","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46069673591018,"sku":"9780226121192","price":17.48,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/5301\/6298\/files\/51Lf8KejClL._SY522.jpg?v=1781216782","url":"https:\/\/textbookme.store\/products\/the-dilemma-of-style-architectural-ideas-from-the-picturesque-to-the-post-modern","provider":"TextbookMe","version":"1.0","type":"link"}